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Why not? I am actually being serious. The distortion numbers on the measurement mics is very low and the transducers in the KU100 are pretty small too. I guess I could go nuts and do it with Earthworks M30s instead but that would drive the cost way up. I long ago abandoned that because it has a brand name on it is something special. The Aachen is even more expensive (I think north of 20k) because they pretty much only sell it as a measurement device. Long term I'd love to find a KU100 but I could never really justify it but if I keep this under $500 it's a lot easier to justify. I have a paper from the guys at Aachen that I have to read on the auralization of spaces goes rummaging through his briefcase.

I emailed the guy who I bought my calibrated mic from to see if he would calibrate the head and for how much if he will. He usually charges $50 or so for a mono mic so I would assume $100 or so. If I get the calibration done for that price and including the mics I may get out for under $300 not bad considering the Neumann is over 5 grand

Dusty, thanks for the advice re the body shop but I actually have quite of a bit of experience with fiberglass through my work on various sailboats through the years. The head I'm using has ears etc so the flaps are covered mostly (the Aachen head doesn't even have real ears, HEAD acoustics - NVH Division - Binaural recording systems - Overview). The newest binaural heads (Aachen/Head, Neumann) seem to have a hard surface with a matte finish which Bob is pretty close to as well. Also the methods for binaural vary a bit because some even use mics outside the head like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dummyhead.jpg I figure if they will calibrate it it should be damn close after the equalization is applied. The professional ones have the equalization built in.

You should be turning it up 6dB (or so). As far as working harder the amp should be using 6db more gain as well and be 6db closer to the noise floor etc..

Hi All, I'm thinking of buying two measurement mikes and turning my new mannequin head Bob into a binaural head with ear canals etc. Once I do that I will also send it off to be calibrated and then the fun will really begin To do this though I need a dremel or something that will let my router out a couple access ports etc into the back of Bob. Anyone have something suitable I can borrow?

I will take that under advisement.....

He takes his listening very seriously

I did the hour estimates for the 7 people in my group through the end of the year and found out that I have 560 hours of scheduled work for myself and there are only 520 hours to the end of the year. To add insult to injury that does not include my management load, like doing hour estimates and schedules. I think it's time to find a new job.

Pics of Bob (the head). Looks surprisingly good but I had not thought it through because he's fiberglass and it's going to be very hard to install a measurement mic.

It has been touched by the hand of luvdunhill.....

Dunno. I'd whine a bit too if they downgraded the spec on the DAC chip (even if it's inaudible). Look forward to hearing impressions

Now I need to figure out how to mount the measurement mic in it once it arrives.

Foam head for some experimentation

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Happy Birthday Sir!

Claiming there is no difference between the two parties is like claiming there is no difference between Fox News and CNN

Great Thanks! This is going to result in some weird looks when I pick this up from my mailbox at the UPS store.

Doug if you don't mind could you put up where you found the mannequin heads? I have been thinking of getting one myself.

Dusty I just got an email from Vintage King they have an open box special on the HEDD192 for $3125 as well as a lot of other sexy stuff. Too bad I'm not buying anything these days....

My understanding is that it is modeling the non-linearity of compression and distortion etc. Anyway it's only 10x the Behringer DEQ. Vintage King carries them, I'd say a trial may be in order

Never heard of that product before. Very cool, though not for the purist I would guess. I wonder how long it will be before the catalog and model every tube and get rid of them entirely Makes me want to try the HEDD 192 just out of curiosity and without the tube modeling the thing is supposed to be great. http://www.cranesong.com/downloads/1595_Crane%20Song.pdf

I just finished watching The Watchmen Directors Cut. Good but holy crap that was a long movie.

Happy birthday

Congratulations Beefy! That's awesome, I hope the research goes well. I woke up feeling like crap and decided to take a sick day. Now I'm watching TV and cooling out.