Topic: How do you pronounce...

[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"