He's actually right here, his claim has always been he can take his stuff (Sonic, internals, doesn't matter) and do his "thing" and the recording will be as good (or 90% whatever that means) as anyone's. You can't make him stand somewhere he wouldn't or not finger someone or even take away whatever he does in post, because that's all a part of his thing. Perhaps he knows that his unit can't handle X amount of low end, so he cuts it, knowing full well he's gonna add it back in post, if he can't do that, then it's not doing his thing, it's doing someone else's, he's never claimed that other methods would produce a good tape, just his own.
The only "fair" way of doing it (scientific or not) is both tapers recording the same show using whatever means they use (mics, gear, location, etc, all up to taper) and both doing what ever they do in post. Then conduct an independent poll online where the listeners have no idea as to who made the recording, the equipment used or the tapers location. Any other way would produce results slanted one way or the other.
this guy gets it.
"90% as good as": if a mic stand recording is an "A to A+" (as per you folks), I can pull a recording that sounds at
least like a B+/A- 100% of the time with internals on the DR-2D
to me, it's not worth the $1000's of extra dollars, hauling crap around, set up/tear down time for
maybe a 10% improvement in sound quality.
what daspy proposes is ridiculous on numerous levels.
I disagree. Furburger said that internals are as good or better than "expensive" microphones (yes, percentages were cited). A true test for that is to eliminate all variables other than the actual equipment being used to record and make an accurate comparison. Had I been able to score a ticket for tonight's Phish show (in the tapers section), I was prepared to bring 3 rigs with me to do just that. Yes, it is all packed! Although different set-ups than our two combatants, it would have been a fair representation for most. I was prepared to run my regular rig (Nak 700's > SD 744T), CA-14's > CA9200 > Sony PCM-M10, and a Sony PCM-M10 using its internals, all mounted on the same stand. It would have been a direct comparison of internals vs. 2 different externals, all other factors being equal. After all of this arguing, I would have gladly done all the work, if for no other reason, to satisfy my own curiosity.
pretty sure that I said the internals are at least 90% as good. don't think I ever said that the internals were "better than" (unless in response to daspy's vitriol).
the Mulvey link I posted, a mic stand isn't going to sound much better. (just one example).
the first time I pulled an internals recording that was significantly better than the Sonics, I was puzzled myself.
now I never run only the Sonics, and the internals "win" in terms of sound quality 20-30% of the time.
it'll be hard to find a venue that I've not taped in before, one that neither of us have ever taped at would add even another variable for me to thump his sorry ass in, as it's incredibly satisfying to go on a 3 week trip and not pick a single lemon.
and it happens very often.