Decca Tree chopped down
"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:54:21 +0200, "Iain Churches"
wrote:
It is strange that it has survived essentially unchanged, since he
didn't so much design it as put together something he thought might
work ok.
There were several Decca variations of Roy's original idea, including
the addition of the two outriggers, and various combinations of omni
and cardioid microphones.
I suspect that if he had by chance used a different set of
dimensions, we would still be pedantic about having those exactly
right too.
Yes. But the fact, despite a great deal of experimentation,
that no-one (even the BBC, who expressed a great interest)
has actually been able to improve on his work, shows that
he probably got it right the first time. He did not do it overnight:-)
In those early days of stereo, Decca had already a small but
impressive catalogue of stereo recordings made with co-incidental
and crossed pairs. These were all remade (at considerable
expense) using the tree.
The name was thought up by Arthur Haddy, the technical director of
the Decca record Company, who, the first time he saw the Dexion frame
remarked "It looks like a Christmas tree". Later, to allow it to be ´
used all the year round, it became known as simply "the tree".
Iain
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