Last night at Great Woods, Lenny and I were running on the same stand (both clamped to Greg B. - big thanks for letting us run dead center
).
Here's a crappy picture from my cell phone.
That's Greg's AKG 393's up top, my beyerdynamic CK930 in the middle, and Lenny's DPA 4023 on the bottom.
As you can see, we were
basically running the same pattern, and just a few vertical inches apart.
Lenny's gear chain was:
DPA 4023 > Sonosax SX-M2 > Sound Devices 722 (24/96)
My gear chain was:
beyerdynamic CK930 > Sonosax SX-M2 > Marantz PMD-661 w/ "Oade Concert Mod" (@ 24 bit / 96 kHz)
The key here, is that this is an
informal comparison, because I thought it would be fun to do so.
Yes, our mic patterns might not have been absolutely identical. and yes, I was running an oade concert mod PMD-661, while Lenny was using his 722.
but I figured, hey, we're basically running from the same spot, with the same config, and with the same pre-amp. So why not post this as a fun comparison.
I took one song (Halley's Comet) from each of our recordings.
Lenny's is available here -
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=545533mine is available here -
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=545514First, I used SoX to make adjust the levels of both recordings, such that the average RMS level of each recording was identical.
then I went into Samplitude, and I created a 2 minute segment where I alternated sources every 20 seconds.
See table below for details on file
ABABAB.flac. Download file
ABABAB.flac here:
http://iput.it/078d43from....... | to........... | source....... |
00:00 | 00:20 | Source A |
00:20 | 00:40 | Source B |
00:40 | 01:00 | Source A |
01:00 | 01:20 | Source B |
01:20 | 01:40 | Source A |
01:40 | 02:00 | Source B |
For reference, you can also download the full song from each source:
source A (after RMS-balancing) -
http://iput.it/5dca82source B (after RMS-balancing) -
http://iput.it/e72830source A (original file from torrent linked above) -
http://iput.it/d862cdsource B (original file from torrent linked above) -
http://iput.it/2c429bof course, you could cheat this comp, and download both torrents from bt.etree.org, and figure out which one is source A and source B. but where's the fun in that? (answer: no fun).
so, please, listen, vote, post your thoughts, etc, etc...