On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:53:29 +0300, "Iain M Churches"
wrote:

That a very large percentage of microphones
used in digital recordings are valve microphones.

Of course I do. Not the majority, but certainly a goodly proportion of
the more carefully made recordings.

Oh dear :-((

Neumann 49, 50, 56, 64 and U87 are very
popular.

Indeed they are, and for good reason.

Don't believe me? of course you don't:-)

Why would I not?

BTW, my own personal favourite 'do it all' mic is the STC 4038, but
that wouldn't last long in the kind of close-miking hell that you
Decca guys started with 'Phase Four'! :-)

Check the AES Journal (of which I am sure you are
a member, as the A stands for Audio and the E for
Engineering)

Also read some of the excellent recent
articles in Studio Sound,
to which I am sure you subscribe.

I don't subsribe, but I read it from time to time. It's much more a
pro-audio magazine than of interest to the replay end of audio.
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering