Topic: How do you pronounce...

[intpseeker]

I'm a reader, and I've never heard anyone pronounce Schoeps or Neumann. (I don't get out much!)

Does it sound like 'sheps' and n-eye-mahn?

[Nixoo]

shoops and noi-mann

[eric.B]

crappy and great..   

[bbernardini]

Throat Wobbler Mangrove.

[Ryan Sims]

shoops

No.

[aegert]

sheps and noi-man


A

[intpseeker]

Never mind.   

I knew it was a bad idea as soon as I hit 'send', but I got a good laugh out of your suggested pronunciations. +t's

[Krispy D]

put your ear very close to your computer speakers and hear the silence of an empty wallet!

[Brian Skalinder]

sheps and noi-man

AFAIK, the above's correct.

[willndmb]

put your ear very close to your computer speakers and hear the silence of an empty wallet!

lol
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[Nixoo]

shoops

No.

Elaborate? Schoeps is german, so how would a person that speaks German pronounce this you think?

Check: http://www.soundonsound.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=MRT&Number=233677&page=3&view=collapsed&sb=7&o=&fpart=2
Rather amusing

Exerpt:
Schöps. Ö is like I in Girl, Bird or U in Turn or E in Jerk. Germans write it OE if they can not find Ö in the character set. (Likewise, UE when they can't find Ü, which is the U in Fuel, Fuse, or OO in Groom, Broom in Scottish accent.)

[boojum]

Very close.  In German class, decades ago, we were instructed to shape our mouth like the vowel we were trying to pronounce (o, u or a) and say the letter "E" and this gets you very damned close.  Thank you, Mr. Kloos, my old HS German teacher.

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

folksvagon   

[JasonSobel]

isn't real neumann pronounced with a G?
:ducks:

yes 

[DSatz]

Here's one of the requested answers as spoken by Dr. Schoeps himself, and recorded with guess what brand of microphone ...

---best regards

[darktrain]

Here's one of the requested answers as spoken by Dr. Schoeps himself, and recorded with guess what brand of microphone ...

---best regards

Thats how i have pronounced it, but it was just a guess...and my wife is a German teacher

[d_fu]

You can just say "Shurps" as in "burp", but without the "R"... 

[John Willett]

You can just say "Shurps" as in "burp"... 

Yes, this is the correct pronunciation of Schoeps.

[Ryan Sims]

Yes, that's what the ö/oe sound would be in German, but I'll take what DSatz posted as the word.

[John Willett]

Yes, that's what the ö/oe sound would be in German, but I'll take what DSatz posted as the word.

That *is* the word. 

[RebelRebel]

You can just say "Shurps" as in "burp"... 

Yes, this is the correct pronunciation of Schoeps.

as hes German, i hope so.

[DSatz]

Umm--if I'm not mistaken Mr. Willett is British, and most likely pronounces "burps" without nearly as much of an "r" sound in it as most contemporary urban Americans would produce. Only in that case would it rhyme with "Schoeps."

The two big exceptions that I can think of are (a) the old-fashioned white mid-Southern U.S. accent--if you can imagine a Kentucky colonel or prosperous Georgia plantation owner saying the word "burps," again the "r" sound wouldn't be discernable (or "di-sön-a-ble") in that, and likewise (b) a Down-East Maine accent ("Bert and I ...").

--best regards, y'all

[RebelRebel]

Umm--if I'm not mistaken Mr. Willett is British, and most likely pronounces "burps" without nearly as much of an "r" sound in it as most contemporary urban Americans would produce. Only in that case would it rhyme with "Schoeps."

The two big exceptions that I can think of are (a) the old-fashioned white mid-Southern U.S. accent--if you can imagine a Kentucky colonel or prosperous Georgia plantation owner saying the word "burps," again the "r" sound wouldn't be discernable (or "di-sön-a-ble") in that, and likewise (b) a Down-East Maine accent ("Bert and I ...").

--best regards, y'all

Um..no you are not mistaken in that Mr. Willett is British..however, Mr. D_Fu, the person to whom I was referring, is German. I was replying to Mr. Willett, and as such, I would not[in the process of replying] address him(Mr. Willett) as "he"..

[muj]

how do you pronounce Neve

 

[John Willett]

Umm--if I'm not mistaken Mr. Willett is British, and most likely pronounces "burps" without nearly as much of an "r" sound in it as most contemporary urban Americans would produce. Only in that case would it rhyme with "Schoeps."

English actually 

But yes, you are correct, I don't roll my "R"s.

By the way - I had an interesting evening with Helmut Wittke yesterday (Institute of Broadcast Sound meeting in London) and noticed that you translated the surround sound booklet - very interesting reading. 

[cmquinn]

And Schoeps caps are pronouned Mark 4 not MK 4.

[DSatz]

> And Schoeps caps are pronouned Mark 4 not MK 4.

Actually, I'm afraid that's a misunderstanding if it was meant seriously; MK is an acronym for "Mikrophonkapsel" ("microphone capsule").

--best regards

[KLowe]

Us southerners don't have a prayer to say these words correctly.  we butcher everything

I'll stick with my Schempz and Newmanns (like the Seinfeld Newman)

[stevetoney]

the word schoeps is pronounced DARTH.

the word neumann is pronouned LUKE.

[jnorman34]

neumann is pronounced "norman"
schoeps is pronounced "james"

[page]

Us southerners don't have a prayer to say these words correctly.  we butcher everything

I'll stick with my Schempz and Newmanns (like the Seinfeld Newman)

I agree, we of Southern giftedness must suffer some detriment to prevent ourselves from being clearly better (*ducks*)   

However there is a cute one that helps (cue the My Fair Lady skit) remember how Schoeps is said

"Selling my Schoeps, helps my hopes, to buy some Neumanns"

I still say "newman" though. Can't win everything.

the word schoeps is pronounced DARTH.

the word neumann is pronouned LUKE.

+T
That was my really great laugh of the day.

[jerryfreak]

i before e, except FOB?