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Old 26th February 2012   #14
Wayne
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Originally Posted by theblue1 View Post
Where and when did this notion (that you must be in an environment larger than the wavelength of the sound you want to hear) arise?

I heard a lot of utterly nonsensical things in my days in the studio world -- but I never, ever heard this counter-intuitive/counter-experiential notion until I started participating here.
Really? Not new, certainly not just here. Seems to me 'bass waves need room to develope' hangs right up in there with '3:1 for close-far micing...
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