Posted on November 30, 2008 by Gary Beebe, BSW Special Projects Engineer
We used to need speakers as large as file cabinets if we expected to hear any satisfying low frequencies. Today, you can get respectable “grunt” out of absurdly small cabinets. What changed? (a) lots of power, and (b) ported enclosures.
The power part is pretty easy to understand. More power = the speaker cone moves more [...]
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Posted on November 24, 2008 by Steve Kawasaki, BSW VP Marketing
We were recently graced with the presence of Robby Scharf, Market Development Manager, and all-around studio gear whiz from Sennheiser. The occasion of his visit was to introduce BSW to the
Klein+Hummel line of studio monitors, of which Sennheiser is the parent company.
Let me get right to the point. Wow. I spent the morning listening mostly [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2008 by Gary Beebe, BSW Special Projects Engineer
A while ago, I talked about the benefits of using a shotgun mic for voice-over duties. Click here to read that posting.
Most shotguns don’t like to be worked as close as VO requires, but there are a few notable exceptions.
A favorite shotgun mic among the “movie trailer” guys is the Sennheiser MKH416. Terrific mic. The [...]
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