Слейт только что откамментил СОСовский тест на ФБ:
Ok, let's make the recent SOS test a bit more interesting!
So as I've said, vintage microphones vary, sometimes dramatically. The mics used in the SOS shootout were very different than the mics we used during the modeling process, and in one case their 67 vintage mic didn't have same hi frequency mod, and their C12 didn't have the same capsule. Nevertheless, since they kindly provided all thevintage mic audio AND the VMS unprocessed audio, I thought that this would be a great opportunity to show you guys how powerful our VMS modeling software can be.
So disclaimer, the following is not what I would call a true model, because in order to do that we'd need the actual mics to study their circuits and nonlinear artifacts and do way more scientific tests. But I was able to do some more forensic analysis on their vintage mic files and apply it to our mic algorithm system, and the results (using their unprocessed files) are some new VMS files that I believe match very well, and would likely be indistinguishable in a mix. For both models, I used the same 47 and 67 tube modeling as on the stock VMS 47 and 67 since we could not model the actual mic circuits.
The files were upsampled to 96khz since that was necessary for our software tools, and exported as mono. For the examples, I've used the "Grace" track.
Here are the two 67 files, one is the real vintage mic used by SOS, and one is the newly processed VMS file:
www.slatedigital.com/vmsdemo/Grace67_96khz.wav
www.slatedigital.com/vmsdemo/Grace67B_96khz.wav
Here are the two 47 files, one is the real vintage mic used by SOS, and one is the newly processed VMS SOS 47 track. It may be interesting to know that our analysis of the vintage 47 they used showed nulls of up to -9db which is a probable indication of capsule degradation :
www.slatedigital.com/vmsdemo/Grace47_96khz.wav
www.slatedigital.com/vmsdemo/Grace47B_96khz.wav
So there ya go. I think this was pretty cool, and hopefully eye opening to some out there.