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Re: That old devil "Wood Effect"

Hi Mike,

Mark doesn't appear to understans what Stan is saying in his article about the different pictures shown on his trusty old oscilloscope.

If I can paraphrase - but I won't speak for Clark ... he's old enough and ugly enough to speak for himself! ;-) - there IS such a thing as correct polarity. It's when your speakers deliver the sound of the 'bones BLOWING, at that point in the recording, not sucking.

If your system does this, for that recording, then it has correct (absolute) polarity. It may get inverted an even number of times through your component chain but the final result is correct.

If your system in "incorrect" or reverses polarity, the 'bones won't sound correct.

Having said that, Mark is kinda right because not all recording engineers take as much care as Stan does so many other recordings do not exhibit correct polarity. If all the microphones were at least connected up with the same polarity then flipping your "polarity reversal" switch or reversing R & L speaker cables will restore correct polarity ... for that recording!

More likely, not all microphones were connected right - so you have mixed polarity. In that case, changing absolute polarity will exchange one mess for its reverse ... however, one way is likely to sound more pleasing to your brain.

If only we could clone Stan Ricker ... :-)

Regards,

Andy



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