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RE: Your kind invitation

Mr. Christensen;

I wish I could come to Copenhagen and do some testing in a good recording studio -- though I did an organ recording in Lyngby in October many years ago, and as I remember it was already getting dark depressingly early in the afternoon.

Our test, you will note, was deliberately concerned with final versions of recordings for release, and not with microphone feeds. It is certainly worthwhile to use high-bit encoding for the initial capture of acoustic events, and for subsequent mixdown if any -- and we say so in our paper. If your recording channels have a signal space comparable to a modern preamplifier stage instead of being limited to 92 dB or so, this allows everyone much more latitude.

I am aware also that in the studio one often encounters monitoring levels considerably higher than the reference gain we used. If you want to hear for yourself what that was, the signal itself, which at our zero gain should measure 85 dB SPL at the console, is available for download at the bottom of this page: http://www.bostonaudiosociety.org/explanation.htm.

-- E Brad Meyer


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