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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

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!

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 .

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?

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.