Klarinet Archive - Posting 000493.txt from 2001/02

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Difference Tones
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:16:11 -0500

At 08:20 AM 2/13/2001 -0500, George Kidder wrote:
>I doubt if the microphone is linear, especially at that low a frequency.
>This might be all the nonlinearity you need for the recording. Of course,
>something else would have to account for the perception of the live
>audience - and this could be their ears' non-linearity. Or the walls, or
>other pipes, or the rector, or whatever.

If it IS caused by non-linearity, then both the microphones, walls, and
human ears/bodies (for sub-audible frequencies) are nonlinear in the same
way. Curious coincidence, eh?

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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