On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:42:24 +0100, Ian Molton wrote:

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:03:54 -0400
"Arny Krueger" wrote:

An STC or Coles 4038 is a good mic for the recording. As you say,
many top notch studio mics haven't got a flat response.

Much of the current art of audio production is dedicated to getting a
preferred sound that may be nothing like the live performance.

Out of interest, how are the 'response curves' for various speakers
made? do they just use a super-linear microphone, or is there some other
technique used, perhaps measuring harmonics?

They use measuring microphones, which are generally flat to better
than 1dB over the audio range, and are also supplied with an
individual calibration curve, so that even that small response error
can be calculated out.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering