Ole Brøsted Sørensen
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Why sound?
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Do you envisage any major improvements or enhancements to microphone technology occurring within the next 12 months?
The last live show you attended as a punter?
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The last live show you attended as a punter?
If you were to meet up with the teenage Ole Brøsted Sørensen, what advice would you give him?
April 11 1942; Allerød, Denmark..
Electronics engineer and DPA Microphones co-founder and technical director.
Developing instrumentation tape recorders at Danish sound and vibration measurement pioneers Bruel & Kjær.
Sound is exciting because you can not "hear away" from it as you can "look away" from something you don't like looking at. Because of that, the quality of sound is so very important. Every person on earth has been aware of sound since being in the mother's womb. In Danish hospitals, music recorded with DPA microphones is incorporated into the treatment process, even while patients are unconscious!
Apart from raising kids (one boy and one girl) with my wife, it is playing professional ping-pong with consumers and colleagues in my daily work in designing new transducers.
Our latest major achievement is the DPA 4088 headband mic with cardioid characteristics, for which there has been a great demand for some time and which is now in production. We anticipate the 4088 will be a long-awaited contribution to the live sound, film and broadcast industries in particular.
If it were possible to decrease the intense use of compressors, which make you feel as if you have a cold, and use good microphones so people can feel the dynamic range as it really is, the audio industry would have been changed in a very good way. It should be so very simple given that recording media have gained a lot of dynamic range within the latest 20 years.
Yes, we have some very interesting developments coming up in 2004. Besides the 4088 we are also about to launch an accessory which will prove invaluable to location recording engineers in particular.
The Stones on their Licks tour, hence the CD!
Best: There is so much more to be done.
Worst: Life is short.
An old recording of Vladimir Horowitz and some records of soprano Gundula Janowits singing Schubert.
Yes, playing the piano and astronomy.
Viennese composer Franz von Suppe's operetta Boccaccio in November 2003 in a concert hall north of Copenhagen.
"It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it." Live as long and healthy a life as you possibly can. Watch the market closely so that you are always up to date with new technology and can implement developments into microphone design.