Acoustic Guitar samples – a test of quality
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- KVRian
- 657 posts since 21 Aug, 2003
Hehe, I hardpanned the processed samples left and right, that's a fat sound there!
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- KVRian
- 500 posts since 13 Oct, 2004 from Durham, NC USA
I think the samples sound great! And they sound best as a stereo pair. Given that the EM sample has much fuller, rounder bass -- the ET samples have a tone more like a classical guitar -- I expected a big tone imbalance when played in stereo, but they matched up nicely.
Best of all, they sum to mono quite nicely - no nasty phasing artifacts I could hear (though with just one note it can be hard to hear them). Frankly, the sum to mono sounded better than either sample by itself. That's listening with my Extreme Isolation headphones, since my wife is watching TV ... But I expect I'd say the same only more so with better monitoring.
The EM has a fuller, rounder, firmer bass tone (and you thought I was talking about breasts, didn't you!) But I like the crispness of the ET tone too. If I had to pick one or the other I'd probably pick the EM, but I might make a different choice for higher notes.
I agree that the oscillation is a real phenomenon that both mikes picked up. I bet that if you pick in different locations on the string, you'll get different results regarding this. And anyway, it's so far down on the tail that musically it wouldn't be important, especially when the note is played with other notes.
Please don't make the mistake I hear on so many guitar samples and use lots of open string samples. Best to use stopped strings for all notes except low E, and then below the low E, use that octave for only open strings. (Unless you're going to use one of those sophisticated guitar sample players where you can control this kind of thing via MIDI somehow -- read about that but never fiddled with it.)
Best of all, they sum to mono quite nicely - no nasty phasing artifacts I could hear (though with just one note it can be hard to hear them). Frankly, the sum to mono sounded better than either sample by itself. That's listening with my Extreme Isolation headphones, since my wife is watching TV ... But I expect I'd say the same only more so with better monitoring.
The EM has a fuller, rounder, firmer bass tone (and you thought I was talking about breasts, didn't you!) But I like the crispness of the ET tone too. If I had to pick one or the other I'd probably pick the EM, but I might make a different choice for higher notes.
I agree that the oscillation is a real phenomenon that both mikes picked up. I bet that if you pick in different locations on the string, you'll get different results regarding this. And anyway, it's so far down on the tail that musically it wouldn't be important, especially when the note is played with other notes.
Please don't make the mistake I hear on so many guitar samples and use lots of open string samples. Best to use stopped strings for all notes except low E, and then below the low E, use that octave for only open strings. (Unless you're going to use one of those sophisticated guitar sample players where you can control this kind of thing via MIDI somehow -- read about that but never fiddled with it.)
