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Sennheiser uses AX24 for Microphone
demonstration recording
Press release, January 2008
Gregor
Zielinsky Diplom Tonmeister and A&R Manager at
Sennheiser electronic Gmbh & Co used AX24 at the
Music Academy in Hannover. A reference recording was
made with various MKH
8000 Sennheiser
microphones, to be used for demonstration and evaluation
purposes.
"The
AX24 is one of the most transparent and musical converter
- mic preamp I have ever worked with, and is ideal
for evaluating the sonic details of our microphones".
Mr. Zielinsky says.
AX24
was chosen after comparison with other converters
types, due to its transparent, uncoloring and
very musical sound. Additionally the phantom
power circuit were ideal for supplying the needed
power to the various Sennheiser microphones
giving optimal performance.
The microphones
under evaluation were MKH 800, MKH 800 Twin,
MKH 8000 series mics and the recording was made
in Pro Tools with a set-up of 24 channels of
AX24 converters interfacing via MADI to the
AX24 HD I/O.
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Orhestra
at the Music Academy in Hannover
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The
recording was made of an orchestra concerto
at the Music Academy
in Hannover, and was performed in
cooperation with
the Tschaikowski Conservatory of Moscow conducted
by Eiji Ouethe with solist Puhan Wang.
The pieces
played were:
Michael Glinka: Overture for Russia and Ludmilla,
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto Nr. 3 c-minor
op. 37, and
Johannes Brahms: 2. Symphony D-Dur op. 73
The recording
will be available on CD and can be aquired by
contacting Sennheiser or DAD. |
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Set-up
details
25 channels
were recorded via multicore to the control
room (about 40-55 meters) directly into 3
DAD AX24 AD converters and a Pro Tools 192
I/O converter with PRE (for channel 25). The
AX24s drove all microphones with phantom power
and were controlled with DADman running on
a MAC. The 3 AX24 were connected to Pro Tools
via MADI trough DAD HD IO Pro Tools interface.
The whole system was clocked by a Mutec iCLOCK.
Word clock cabeling were made with Apogee
wide eye 75Ohm BNC cables, and monitoring
through K&H O110 monitors. The session was
done in 44.1 kHz 24 Bit .wav format.
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A look in
to the rack with
3 AX24 hokked up to Protools via the HD IO
Protools interface
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