From: "kickindaspeaker" <david@...> >BTW, I was in a sound engineer school once and our teacher >was an incredibly talented sound engineer. We used to start the >session by calibrating the monitors, feeding them with a sine >tone at 1KHz, and moving the main pan button on the board until >the tone sounded "dead center". Once we had the teacher try to >localize the sound. He started: "hold, on, almost, a little more to >the left, again, a tad more, oops, that's too much, now to the right, >again, oops, just a tiny bit back left, THERE, perfect." while one of >us was moving his hand ABOVE the knob, without even touching >it. > Heh, heh, nice one. It just shows, it's all in the mind. If you're not careful you end up spending 200 grand on a hi-fi and then saying - 'All I need now is some air cushions for the speakers, a separate power outlet for my fridge, and a banana hanging from the ceiling 280 degress out of phase with the frequency gate....' Pete