90 Degrees from confusion...

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I was reading some faqs on Harmonycentral. A lot of them mentioned Coincidental Pairs and all kinds of microphone placements. Is all this stuff really important? Are these measures recomended or is it better to just go at it freestyle?
 
I'm sure they're trying to save you some time by giving you good information, same as we do here. Of course, you could always rediscover all of audio engineering the hard way... :)
 
^^^What he said.

Yes, those do matter. Mic placement is key. Along with a good room too :)
 
I just put mics in each of the 8 corners of my room and pick the one(s) that sound the best. Sometimes it's the top left and sometimes it's the one nearest to the egg cartons. I'm only screwed when I record in a round room.

Who needs the knowledge and wisdom of others? Stand on the shoulders of the greats? Room treatment? Meh.
 
RAMI said:
I didn't even know the internet existed 13 years ago. :eek:
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Internet? What's an internet? Must be like that Television thing a ma jig. It's just a fad that the youngins are into these days. Just wait it out, it will pass just like those parachute pants I bought in the 80's when MC Hammer........................



nevermind, I've said too much :facepalm:
 
I was 5 13 years ago :eek:

And RAMI, it didn't... dial-up wasn't internet :laughings:
 
Thanks Kid, now I feel old. I graduated High School more than 13 years ago. 13 plus a few more.
 
RAMI said:
What's even more amazing is that he said it 13 years ago. :eek:
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Yeah, I think that wins the prize in recent times... I've seen 10 a few times lately, but one from last century... wow!
 
kidkage said:
I was 5 13 years ago :eek:

And RAMI, it didn't... dial-up wasn't internet :laughings:
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It might have been dial up but it was well and truly a going concern... internet banking was already in existence, not so much by way of commercial content, and I think Alta Vista might have been the favoured search engine, but this place was here...

I think I first connected in 96 or 97 on an IBM PC that cost me, at special mate's rates, over $4000... Mmmm Windows 95... good times!:laughings:
 
Armistice said:
It might have been dial up but it was well and truly a going concern... internet banking was already in existence, not so much by way of commercial content, and I think Alta Vista might have been the favoured search engine, but this place was here...

I think I first connected in 96 or 97 on an IBM PC that cost me, at special mate's rates, over $4000... Mmmm Windows 95... good times!:laughings:
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My uncles a total techy guy. So I remember when yahoo was all the rage and ebay was catching a lot of steam.

We had this huge computer that was apparently $3000 running win 95. I played pinball nonstop.
 
13 years, this deserves a:

9cd17c67_holy20thread20resurrection.webp

And a:

th_ClappingHands-11.webp
 
It took him 13 years, but his America Online finally connected. World Wide Web here he comes!
 
Just to make some of you feel a lot younger, I was 47 in 1999.

As for the Internet, my first ventures into an online world were Bulletin Boards (where you dialled directly to the board) in about 1985 from a BBC-B microcomputer and a 1200 baud modem. For many years it was argued that 1200 baud was the fastest normal copper phone lines could go.

In the early 90's I converted to a PC with a 14.4 modem and access to the Internet via Compuserve. The migrated to a "real" ISP in 1994.

My first ADSL line was ordered in 1999 but not delivered until well into 2000. I was lucky to live in one of the towns selected as a "trial area" for ADSL or it wouldn't have been that soon. My first ADSL was 512kb and seemed blazingly fast!
 
In case the term "baud" is unknown to the younglings, it basically means pulse rate, and in reference to modems, roughly translates to "bits per second". In serial communications, a byte of transmitted data required about 10 bits, so you could just divide the baud rate by 10 to estimate the data rate. In the day, I used a 300/300 baud connection, which delivered a blistering 30 bytes per second each way.

Paul
 
Ah yes. That 1200 baud modem I mentioned could work at 1200/75 or 300/300. You had to know what the BB you were dialing could support and set it before you connected.

Needless to say, it wasn't a graphics rich environment in those days!
 
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