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Title: How do you pronounce...
Post by: intpseeker on March 15, 2008, 08:56:19 AM
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?
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: Nixoo on March 15, 2008, 09:01:00 AM
shoops and noi-mann
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: eric.B on March 15, 2008, 09:11:11 AM
crappy and great..   :P
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: bbernardini on March 15, 2008, 10:51:39 AM
Throat Wobbler Mangrove.
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: Ryan Sims on March 15, 2008, 11:42:58 AM
shoops

No.
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: aegert on March 15, 2008, 11:46:26 AM
sheps and noi-man


A :D
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: intpseeker on March 15, 2008, 01:45:56 PM
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
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: Krispy D on March 15, 2008, 01:52:00 PM
put your ear very close to your computer speakers and hear the silence of an empty wallet!
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: Brian Skalinder on March 15, 2008, 01:56:51 PM
sheps and noi-man

AFAIK, the above's correct.
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: willndmb on March 15, 2008, 02:02:51 PM
put your ear very close to your computer speakers and hear the silence of an empty wallet!
lol
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Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: Nixoo on March 15, 2008, 03:09:37 PM
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.)
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: boojum on March 15, 2008, 03:34:11 PM
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.
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: Teen Wolf Blitzer on March 15, 2008, 03:42:26 PM
folksvagon   ;D
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: JasonSobel on March 15, 2008, 07:40:58 PM
isn't real neumann pronounced with a G?
:ducks:

yes  :)
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: DSatz on March 15, 2008, 11:44:53 PM
Here's one of the requested answers as spoken by Dr. Schoeps himself, and recorded with guess what brand of microphone ...

---best regards
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: darktrain on March 16, 2008, 12:15:12 AM
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
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: d_fu on April 08, 2008, 06:57:18 PM
You can just say "Shurps" as in "burp", but without the "R"...  :)
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: John Willett on April 17, 2008, 08:25:17 AM
You can just say "Shurps" as in "burp"...  :)

Yes, this is the correct pronunciation of Schoeps.
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: Ryan Sims on April 17, 2008, 08:40:14 AM
Yes, that's what the ö/oe sound would be in German, but I'll take what DSatz posted as the word.
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: John Willett on April 17, 2008, 09:34:07 AM
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.  ;D
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: RebelRebel on April 17, 2008, 05:28:46 PM
You can just say "Shurps" as in "burp"...  :)

Yes, this is the correct pronunciation of Schoeps.

as hes German, i hope so.
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: DSatz on April 17, 2008, 08:53:08 PM
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
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: RebelRebel on April 17, 2008, 09:09:55 PM
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"..




Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: muj on April 18, 2008, 05:07:11 AM
how do you pronounce Neve

 ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: John Willett on April 18, 2008, 07:50:11 AM
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.  :D
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: cmquinn on April 18, 2008, 04:57:16 PM
And Schoeps caps are pronouned Mark 4 not MK 4.

Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: DSatz on April 18, 2008, 10:40:08 PM
> 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
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: KLowe on April 18, 2008, 11:02:03 PM
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)
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: stevetoney on June 19, 2008, 03:58:29 PM
the word schoeps is pronounced DARTH.

the word neumann is pronouned LUKE.
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: jnorman34 on June 19, 2008, 04:23:36 PM
neumann is pronounced "norman"
schoeps is pronounced "james"
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: page on June 20, 2008, 01:32:20 PM
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*)   :D

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.
Title: Re: How do you pronounce...
Post by: jerryfreak on June 21, 2008, 01:15:54 AM
i before e, except FOB?