Hopefully someone can help me out here. I am going to be demoing a LOT of different speakers pretty regularly. I have a blog where I put up the recordings for my readers so they can listen and get a feel for the speakers. I know it's not exact or anything, but you can still learn a lot about each speaker this way.
Anyway, up until this point, I've used multiple portable recorders in a setup where one is modified to only record the low end (zoom h1) and the mids and highs are recorded using another portable recorder. This works surprisingly well, but I would like to take it further.
There must be better options out there for something like this. The microphone needs to be placed a good distance away from the speakers. A good example would be if in the test setup, the left and right channel speakers are 6ft apart on center, the microphone will usually be 6ft back from them. This obviously gives almost ideal stereo imaging.
The more options the better. I upload multiple tracks so people can compare each speaker with each microphone. I don't want to spend an extravagant amount. I'd rather have more pretty good mic's than 2 top end mics if that makes sense.
If it helps, the rooms are treated acoustically for the most part. We demo in a lot of different setups ranging from the most ideal listening room, to the "average persons living room" type setup (very minimal wall treatment, bunch of furniture, open ended rooms...)
I appreciate any input you can provide.
Anyway, up until this point, I've used multiple portable recorders in a setup where one is modified to only record the low end (zoom h1) and the mids and highs are recorded using another portable recorder. This works surprisingly well, but I would like to take it further.
There must be better options out there for something like this. The microphone needs to be placed a good distance away from the speakers. A good example would be if in the test setup, the left and right channel speakers are 6ft apart on center, the microphone will usually be 6ft back from them. This obviously gives almost ideal stereo imaging.
The more options the better. I upload multiple tracks so people can compare each speaker with each microphone. I don't want to spend an extravagant amount. I'd rather have more pretty good mic's than 2 top end mics if that makes sense.
If it helps, the rooms are treated acoustically for the most part. We demo in a lot of different setups ranging from the most ideal listening room, to the "average persons living room" type setup (very minimal wall treatment, bunch of furniture, open ended rooms...)
I appreciate any input you can provide.