15 Apr
2008
15 Apr
'08
10:50 p.m.
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 17:06 -0400, Dennis Boone wrote:
Again, I think others have this right: put the machine
in one room,
extend the speaker into a quiet recording space, mic it. Or just mic
machine and all, since its noise was part of the original experience. ;)
Oh yeah, make it sound easy, why don't you?
To properly capture it, you're going to need a decent mike near the
speaker. Of course this is going to catch a certain amount of hard disk
noise too, but to get the noise of the floppies right, you're going to
want another mike there too. These should be panned left and right,
about 40% each way.
The fan is a significant noise, so you're going to want a good condenser
mike with a popshield somewhat off-axis - this will probably catch the
satisfying *clunk* of the Big Orange Switch.
Case resonances make up a huge part of the sound - what's the case lid,
but a little reverb plate? So, you're going to want a couple of
overheads on that panned hard left and right, and maybe a PZM stuck
right to the case to bring out some of the warmth.
You're only looking at six channels there, but it should mix down into a
nice clean recording of the *real* sound of an IBM 5150.
Gordon