TED X lecture

[edisonphonoworks]

This is the link to the Ted X speech Thomas Negovan and I did in Naperville, IL. You can see more of the psych of what was going on. And I must say, I am not sure how much I like people either LOL.


http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxNape ... -Negovan-B

[WDC]

Thanks, Shawn for posting this. Just watched the whole thing, quite nice to see when the phonograph is brought to the minds of today's people. Great performance!

[edisonphonoworks]

Thank You Norman, the public response was really positive, afterwards, I set the machine up in the lobby for a Q and A session, and had the phone playing constantly original and new cylinders, everyone said it was the highlight of the event, and I think all present asked questions. Tom and I did a rehearsal session at the hotel, and tried different horns, and the cygnet, actually had the best recording qualities for a guitar and vocal, it recorded a nice range and loudly, I used regular recording horns, and three different recorders, and this was the best combination. If I recall when Diamond Disc records were being recorded, they used short fiber horns for vocals, and a metal cone horn, and sometimes a pointy morning glory horn was used for saxophone and brass sections. We are working on a 16 track analog Ampex 2" studio recorder with classic high end mixer used by Emerson Lake and Palmer, many vintage RCA ribbon and condenser microphone like early neumann, Sony (C-37A), RCA 44bx,77A, 77dx ect. Original processors like the Fairchild 670 compressor, Teletronix LA-1 optical limiter,Pultec EQP 1-a ect .

[gregbogantz]

Shawn, it's interesting that you had good success using a cygnet horn for recording. I have often wondered why most acoustic recording horns were such simple conical designs that are notorious for sounding bad as reproducing horns. It seems reasonable that a horn designed for good playback should also work well for recording. Have you ever tried to use an exponential horn for recording?

[edisonphonoworks]

I would love to try one, a blank customer in Australia built an exponential horn out of wood, and used it for recording I was told it worked rather well. I should build one.