Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Mic Comparison

2017-06-26 Thread Augustine Leudar
yikes - hope this doesn't apply to Motu's avb series too - I just got a 24 ao and am thinking if a 24 ai On 27 June 2017 at 11:37, Richard Lee wrote: > There's a number of issues brought up in this thread which Core Sound have > been aware of for some time and have been attempting to addres

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Mic Comparison

2017-06-26 Thread Richard Lee
There's a number of issues brought up in this thread which Core Sound have been aware of for some time and have been attempting to address. But its difficult for a small company to make major changes on the small turnover. For what its worth, the 'new' PPAc will give around 1dB improvement in

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Mic Comparison (& sesquicentennial)

2017-06-26 Thread Michael Dunn
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Re: [Sursound] Re. Re: Re Re: Ambisonic Mic Comparison

2017-06-26 Thread David Pickett
At 21:57 26/06/2017, David Pickett wrote: This whole business of low noise microphones and preamps is in my experience a non-issue in the vast majority of cases. That said, I was upset to discover that MOTU publish no details on their website of the 4Pre that can be construed as truly technic

Re: [Sursound] Re. Re: Re Re: Ambisonic Mic Comparison

2017-06-26 Thread John Leonard
http://www.johnleonard.co.uk I look forward to seeing you enter into the market. Regards, John Please note new email address & direct line phone number email: j...@johnleonard.uk phone +44 (0)20 3286 5942 > On 26 Jun 2017, at 20:09, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > > Granted, that. However, I'd still

Re: [Sursound] Re. Re: Re Re: Ambisonic Mic Comparison

2017-06-26 Thread David Pickett
This whole business of low noise microphones and preamps is in my experience a non-issue in the vast majority of cases. Very few environments are quiet enough to be softer than the noise level of most microphones. This is true in most cases of recording nature sounds and very few recording stud

Re: [Sursound] Re. Re: Re Re: Ambisonic Mic Comparison

2017-06-26 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2017-06-26, John Leonard wrote: Well, of course, the ULN-8 isn’t just a pre-amp: it happens to have eight very nice low-noise high-gain mic pre-amps as part of the package, that’s all. Nowadays even the highest of the highest spheres in operational amplifier technology costs something lik

Re: [Sursound] Re. Re: Re Re: Ambisonic Mic Comparison

2017-06-26 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 01:26:59PM +0200, David Pickett wrote: > the MOTU > Traveler, MOTU 4Pre, > Metric Halo's ULN-8, Prism > Sound's >

Re: [Sursound] Re. Re: Re Re: Ambisonic Mic Comparison

2017-06-26 Thread John Leonard
Well, of course, the ULN-8 isn’t just a pre-amp: it happens to have eight very nice low-noise high-gain mic pre-amps as part of the package, that’s all. Also, rather obviously, I didn’t buy the Tetramic and then the ULN-8. The ULN-8 has been at the centre of my studio set-up for many years and

Re: [Sursound] Re. Re: Re Re: Ambisonic Mic Comparison

2017-06-26 Thread Augustine Leudar
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Re: [Sursound] Re. Re: Re Re: Ambisonic Mic Comparison

2017-06-26 Thread David Pickett
At 14:44 26/06/2017, Steven Boardman wrote: >I use the Motu 4pre (with a tablet for on the fly decodes), with a >Zoom F8 in the field. I also have a RME Fireface in the studio. >None have problems with the noise floor being louder than that of the mic. >The noise of the Tetramic is only a problem

Re: [Sursound] Re. Re: Re Re: Ambisonic Mic Comparison

2017-06-26 Thread Steven Boardman
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Re: [Sursound] Re. Re: Re Re: Ambisonic Mic Comparison

2017-06-26 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2017-06-26, David Pickett wrote: I am not a MOTU user, but at USD 449, the MOTU 4Pre presumably has a quite adequate noise specification, or the highly competent Tetramic engineers would not have mentioned it in the same sentence as the more expensive options. Furthermore, on the digital

Re: [Sursound] Re. Re: Re Re: Ambisonic Mic Comparison

2017-06-26 Thread David Pickett
At 10:48 26/06/2017, Enda Bates wrote: >In our test, the mic preamps were quite modest (the MOTU 8m) although >still fairly representative of the types of mic pres often used with >these types of mics, hence the issue. So, as John also mentioned, when >using the TetraMic with modest mic pres (suc

[Sursound] Re. Re: Re Re: Ambisonic Mic Comparison

2017-06-26 Thread Enda Bates
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