OK, so I've been curious about this for a while but was never sure how to ask so I'll just get it out and make a fool of myself. ?
It seems you can tell immediately if a guy testing a microphone knows what he's doing because he just repeats "one two, one two" over and over. The rest of us wannabes are usually like "Is this thing on? Can you hear me? Testing, testing, one, two, three. One, two, three. One two three four five six seven. Is it working?" Then blows into the mic, then spits a few times on the mic and perhaps even tap it with the finger a couple of times.
So I have to ask; Is there a particular reason that the guys who know their stuff just use those two words, "one" and "two"? Is it that these two words are sufficient to test the entire acoustic range and phoneme combinations that a sound engineer is interested in hearing when setting up the balance? What is so terrible about the word "three" that it is never used?
I know, it's a silly question but I won't lie, I find it almost difficult to start counting from one and then arrest the counting before I get to three. Everything in me wants to continue at least to three. Am I alone in fighting this inner struggle? ???
It seems you can tell immediately if a guy testing a microphone knows what he's doing because he just repeats "one two, one two" over and over. The rest of us wannabes are usually like "Is this thing on? Can you hear me? Testing, testing, one, two, three. One, two, three. One two three four five six seven. Is it working?" Then blows into the mic, then spits a few times on the mic and perhaps even tap it with the finger a couple of times.
So I have to ask; Is there a particular reason that the guys who know their stuff just use those two words, "one" and "two"? Is it that these two words are sufficient to test the entire acoustic range and phoneme combinations that a sound engineer is interested in hearing when setting up the balance? What is so terrible about the word "three" that it is never used?
I know, it's a silly question but I won't lie, I find it almost difficult to start counting from one and then arrest the counting before I get to three. Everything in me wants to continue at least to three. Am I alone in fighting this inner struggle? ???