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  1. egads! i think youve figured these poasters out! welcome to the boards! theres some here that really know their shtuff... you got this! have fun!
  2. put on some headphones and give it a spin for yourself... dont ask me. the recordings done in asmr are all marked as such, and pretty much the last 6 or 7 uploaded at the least... they are recorded @ “the neighbor’s incessantly barking dog studios” with a couple tracks from “logging truck highway” mixing facilities... ive got an appointment for recording in the local caverns when the dust settles... the larger room at the caverns is so silent! further, its nothing like what i expected... i figured reverb and reflection like mad, but its the polar opposite! its silent, and no echo, reverb, reflection of any kind that i can hear. its dead, jim... perhaps a resonance will be found in the room but so far it just eats any sound ive produced... flutes, whistles, hand claps, voice, hand drum... ive yet to roll in a gong... thats next. the rangers seem to like me and have graciously offered me the time i require and more. a couple of them are musicians, too! headphones required.
  3. the largest right now is a 54” chinese chau... but i think the 48” is actually giving me lower frequencies, at least with the techniques im using now. the 48 emits a pulse that is just a little over three not quite four pulses per second... you dont hear it, you feel it... you can see the sides, frame of the gong flopping in an odd visual... it looks “soft” kinda “floppy”? oscillating... and a “heavy” silence, for lack of a better term. you hear something, but its like the tangential harmonics off a gong “chord” set up... but you feel this pulse in your bones and hips... likes its inside you trying to get out, not the opposite... the trick i use on the 48 doesnt play on the 54... i warm up the frame with two of my heaviest mallets in a way that promotes lower registers, then friction applied to the perimeter of the frame with a 3” natural rubber ball on a hollow brass rod, 3/16th inch dia x 16” long with matching silicone ball on opposite end... believe it or not, all those details make a difference in what frequency is produced. the frequencies im looking to capture are the ones that dont travel farther than where im sitting. think of the vibrations being two halves of of a sphere, held together by a plane of silence. this sphere is not smooth, it is patterned, rippled or striated... think magnetic meridians around this planet... movable, in flux... now think about the currents that flow within this flux...borealis... some extend far from the source, others swarm close to the center, not enough energy to move too far from source... others... lower, longer waves, travel much more easily through even densely compacted matter... i have sought to bring these subtle vibrations... the beauty that can only be discovered in the decay of resonance close to the source... fifteen feet away you hear the primary frequency of the instrument colored by whatever harmonics happen to be pulled out with it from a particular pattern or sequence...its beautiful... relaxing, physically and mentally healing for stress related issues. but, my brother... 15 inches away from the center of the gong there us a symphony going on between those tones... melodies... voices of angels... (others description, i hear mantras...) whales and dolphins sing... three inches away from the center isnt even the same universe as the last one described... but those mysterious “outer limits”, are covered up by primary tones, and even for the most part, by the noise floor itself... its a delicate, very subtle thing... the polar opposite of peoples first impression of gong... oh big! loud! mmmm. good! and it is! but its so much more... in so much less... this is why asmr recording trips my trigger... it opens a door to a universe of vibration usually obscured to those who have never properly interacted with one of these ancient teachers...
  4. i have two crown pzms... nice ones... ive not had much success with them, but open to ideas... im kinda infatuated with asmr recording right now... the detail and separation is a brain hack... listen to the last three or four soundcloud submissions on my page. put on your headphones, turn it up... close your eyes and just focus on sound... the mics are inside my ears, you are listening through my ears... you can tell when i turn my head or shift focus... no stands, no mic placement issues... im going to try them for vocals and guitar... maybe today!
  5. i think proper placement with sdc’s can work... the right mic/room/placement/technique, all contribute as well as the artist’ attention to dynamics, personal style etc... the most success ive had has been, first, mic the air around the instruments like you were mic’ing up a string quartet... an a/b or your preferred stereo technique set at enough distance to allow for “bloom”... full resonance. lots of folks recommend their pet mics, to my reasoning, the lower the self noise and extended frequency response the better off. there are lots of good mics, i prefer ldc’s... “LeWitt 440 pure” specs are good guidelines... i have two and was set to buy two more and then i discovered ASMR recording... autonomous sensory meridian response or something is the name, what it is, is true immersive 3-D sound... on steroids... the separation and detail is a brain hack... miniature mics inserted into the ear, below the level of the pinnae, allow the listener to hear using my ears. what i hear as i blend the frequencies. ive tested two sets, roland em-10’s, which have built in, in ear monitors.. and my current preference, sound professionals ms-tfb2 master class, despite the easier fit of the rolands, i prefer the sp’s smaller size,( no need for in ear monitors) plus i feel there is a slight benefit in the deeper fit of the smaller mic to the listeners experience. both require 10v phantom power and work well with my zoom Q8, which the lowest is 12v... both manufacturers said no problem. the rolands are $79, the sp’s are a little better than twice that money... i have recordings done with both... same time, same day, same tools on the gongs, im happy to share a link if youre interested, but im hard pressed to hear much of a diff... wearing preferences and maybe slight edge in handling higher spls... maybe just my imagination... ? on a side note, ive just tried recording voice and guitar with these... i like them. no, they probably wont replace my other mics completely, but they just may come really close...
  6. so how close are you to the redneck riviera? are you thinning the herd?
  7. where does the watering can go in the signal chain? it appears that youre connecting it between the amp and the wall socket?
  8. the tractor seat was wet... honestly...
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