Talk:Georg Neumann

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The negative opinion concerning Neumann's present-day microphones is the kind of thing ("POV") which we generally strive to avoid on Wikipedia, no? -- DSatz 23:51, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree with you.--Lenilucho 04:35, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I got brave and rewrote the whole thing. Now it needs to be "mercilessly edited" by others. -- DSatz 16:44, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

My Edit as of yesterday was strictly correct and verifiable, why was this removed? U67 less forward in upper mid-range than U47? Quote one engineer who has ever said that. U47 not liked in it|s time for close up vocals? Have you asked a Geoff Emerick or Bruce Swedien about that? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.202.217.159 (talk • contribs) 15:36, 9 September 2006.

Hi, I may be mistaken in reverting your edit as I am not exactly an expert on this subject, but looking at the frequency response graphs for these microphones (at [1] and [2]) it seems to me that the U47 and U48 do emphasize the frequencies between 2-4 kHz (the frequencies the ear is most sensitive to) while the U67's frequency response is rather flat in this area. --KFP 16:27, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

KFP, you were not mistaken at all. -- To the anonymous person who posted the previous comment, the two engineers you mention came along decades after the U 47 was introduced. In Geoff Emerick's rather wonderful book it is quite evident that he and the Beatles were looking for all possible ways to (basically) push equipment past its normal bounds so as to produce sounds that their designers had never intended. Published materials from both Neumann and Gotham Audio (Neumann's very active U.S. representative) at the time of the U 67's introduction also refer to Neumann's tailoring the U 67's response specifically to allow for very close pickup of vocals without harshness; it is clear that this application had not been especially anticipated in the design of the U 47, which the U 67 was mainly designed to replace. DSatz 03:21, 26 August 2007 (UTC)