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Condenser or Condensor?
Isn't it condenSER? Not condenSOR? As in CondenSER mics? I just want to confirm this and want people to read what really is correct so they won't end up using the same wrong term over and over again to the point it gets tiring.
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Wood67
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 10:25:49
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Condenser.
'Condensor' is not a real word.
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 10:29:44
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You say 'tomato'...I say 'tom-ah-to'....  My favourite part-of-speech is/are HETERONYMNS In the blowing wind, you saw him wind his watch... The white winged dove dove into the bushes... In one minute, I was able to see minute details I'd like homonyms too if I weren't homonymophobic..... Oh - don't forget palidromes. Words or sentences that read the same forward and backward....the longest I know being: "go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog" Glad I could clear up your condenczar issue.... Martin
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 10:36:51
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"Isn't it condenSER? Not condenSOR? As in CondenSER mics? I just want to confirm this and want people to read what really is correct so they won't end up using the same wrong term over and over again to the point it gets tiring."
Have you checked the OED?
to simply see
if there can be
a right way
for a
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 10:54:57
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The dictionary says "condenser", but it's "condensor" according to a lot of mic manufacturers (or is it manufacturors?  ) I think maybe some manufacturers want to differentiate a microphone condensOr from, say, an air conditioning condensEr. It's the same thing with "compact disc" where the manufacturers deviate from the normal dictionary spelling like in "floppy disk" for whatever reasons I have no idea. But I'll stick with condensor since that's what's printed on my mic manual.
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 13:07:47
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Condensor no such word according to the OED
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 13:42:50
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Thanks Wookie... I can't afford a e-subscription.
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 14:31:19
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THEY'RE wrong, it was THEIR car that was THERE.
spelled different...sound exactly alike.
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 14:34:13
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When I take my mic from the studio to the car and leave it there when it's really cold? It becomes a condenser?
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 14:43:26
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so when you mix... does the kick drum pan centre or center ??!?! I have this argument with a baker, who seems to think MY spelling is wrong .. bah!
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 15:17:54
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Spaceduck
Fog
so when you mix...
does the kick drum pan centre or center ??!?!
I have this argument with a baker, who seems to think MY spelling is wrong .. bah!
I've always wondered if y'all on the right side of the pond think Americans are chronic misspellers. I fully admit my spelling is totally confused; I've bounced from the USA to Europe to Canada enough to ensure that I get it wrong wherever I am 
funny you say that. when I was in elementary school one of my teachers asked me if one of my parents was British because I'd spell some words using the English spelling and some using the American spelling. I don't know why I did that because both of my parents were not only American but they were very rural Tennessee natives (that's a politically correct way of saying they were "hillbillies!). Even sometimes today I still have to think about some words like theater vs. theatre, center vs centre, color vs colour, analog vs analogue. the "s' vs "c" never bothered me, tho. I don't have a problem spelling license (vs. licence) or defense (vs. defence).
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 15:34:27
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Haha, then I'm not the only one! I also think the internet, with its cross-continental jumbling, is giving us all a bit o' the identity crisis. My big hangup is when to use 'z' vs. 's'. Like in Anglicizing. Or is it Anglicising. Or Anglisising.... 
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 15:42:22
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Spaceduck
Haha, then I'm not the only one! I also think the internet, with its cross-continental jumbling, is giving us all a bit o' the identity crisis. My big hangup is when to use 'z' vs. 's'. Like in Anglicizing. Or is it Anglicising. Or Anglisising....
Yeah, but the interent wasn't around when I was in elementary school!!!
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 16:06:54
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Thanks Wookie... I can't afford a e-subscription.
best,
mike.
Hi mike neither can I but I did discover this apparent little gem which is a condensed OED free online ASK Oxford
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 17:12:49
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Fog
so when you mix...
does the kick drum pan centre or center ??!?!
I have this argument with a baker, who seems to think MY spelling is wrong .. bah!
Someone once told me on this here forum that you can't 'pan' something 'centre', it has to be left or right or it's not panned at all...still not sure about that one.
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 21:28:21
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Fog
so when you mix...
does the kick drum pan centre or center ??!?!
I have this argument with a baker, who seems to think MY spelling is wrong .. bah!
My kick  Bass drum is panned center. I have never kicked a drum in my life, nor will I ever. I have yet to understand how pressing down on a pedal got all mixed up with kicking something............... But thats a topic for another thread.  Mike
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/20 21:45:06
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/21 00:59:10
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Or you can just spell it "capacitor".
In North America we stopped calling capacitors "condensers" long ago, while in the UK "condenser" remained popular. Of course, I'm referring to the electronic components, not microphones. Curiously, we still use the older term "condenser" when referring to variable-capacitance microphones. However, I do see the term "capacitor microphone" used in some British articles and advertisements.
Let's just all switch to ribbons. At least we all agree on what they're called.
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/21 03:00:43
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bitflipper
Let's just all switch to ribbons. At least we all agree on what they're called.
What's this ribbon you speak of? Is it anything like a velocity mic? And would it sound better through a tube preamp or a valve preamp?
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/21 06:34:37
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Fog
so when you mix...
does the kick drum pan centre or center ??!?!
I have this argument with a baker, who seems to think MY spelling is wrong .. bah!
My kick Bass drum is panned center.
I have never kicked a drum in my life, nor will I ever. I have yet to understand how pressing down on a pedal got all mixed up with kicking something............... But thats a topic for another thread.
Mike
Mike, Back in those hazy days of youth I played drums and to be honest I always called it a bass drum as well, having said that I did once read and article somewhere that talked about early drummers who kicked the drum on the floor because that was the only way they could play it.
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/21 09:21:55
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Back in those hazy days of youth I played drums and to be honest I always called it a bass drum as well, having said that I did once read and article somewhere that talked about early drummers who kicked the drum on the floor because that was the only way they could play it. Thanks Wookiee, Good to know. Man that must have sounded great. But I'm still sticking to bass drum. Mike
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Re:Condenser or Condensor?
2010/01/21 09:58:01
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I used to write 'BD' on the masking tape on the mixing desks. But I think that was only because it has less letters than writing 'KIK'.
Always used to feel sorry for channels 1 and 24. Nothing ever went to those except a Kik or SMPTE code. Channel 17 on the other hand was always good for a surprise.
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