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Yeah one microphone was behind the other, though I was under the impression it was half a wavelength behind and thus created something quite akin to modern acti
by llamaimperative 3y ago
Yeah one microphone was behind the other, though I was under the impression it was half a wavelength behind and thus created something quite akin to modern active noise-cancellation?
Edit: Apparently this is not the case!
- itishappy 3y agoA very literal phased array!
- bregma 3y agoWhen I saw them (back in 83, it's been a long strange trip) it looked more like one mic was on top of the other with about a 6 inch separation.
- dekhn 3y agoSee https://archive.org/post/256492/the-betty-question-answered https://archive.org/post/256492/the-betty-question-answered for more details both on WoS and the microphone setup.
- dylan604 3y agoHalf wave length in what frequency would be the first thing that would give me pause to this. I'm reading this after your edit, but even before I got to the edit my brain was already heading towards nope
- llamaimperative 3y agoYeah that asterisk popping up in my head was why I did some more digging as well :) thought tbf, the Dead never seemed to care much about vocal quality so it wouldn’t have been crazy for this to work well only for a narrow band. I don’t have any intuition for exactly how narrow that band would be and how that’d sound in practice though.