andyjm said:Yep,
There are a bunch who post on here who 'want it to sound as if I was in the studio with the musicians' - who clearly have never stood in a studio with musicians.
The sound that the engineer hears in the control room is not a bad target to aim for with your HiFi system, but it certainly isn't how it sounded in the studio.
Covenanter said:I want it to sound something like I hear in a concert hall. I want it to be close enough that I can ignore the artifice and listen to the music.
Chris
Alec said:We should and always have and always will live in a "whatever sounds best to you" world, and theres a lot more out there than beats.
Good luck settling on those parameters.
Covenanter said:]
I want it to sound something like I hear in a concert hall. I want it to be close enough that I can ignore the artifice and listen to the music.
Chris
andyjm said:Covenanter said:]
I want it to sound something like I hear in a concert hall. I want it to be close enough that I can ignore the artifice and listen to the music.
Chris
This is damn tricky. Your brain does all sorts of wonderful things with echo in an auditorium that make it very hard to reproduce a realistic sound through two channel stereo. That and the dynamic range of a concert is a challenge as well.
I participated in a test that used a human head shape in which microphones were placed in the the 'ears'. This was then placed in an auditorium and a concert recored. All sorts of EQ had to be done to compensate for ear canals and stuff, but when the recording was played back through headphones it was remarkably lifelike. Most of this was lost when played back through speakers.
Andrew17321 said:“It's a very affecting thing to be in the same room as these musicians – a little embarrassing, even. You're being shown something so personal, especially with chamber music, that it's almost awkward.”
This is so true. The first time I heard a trio close up, it seemed to me that the clarinetist and the cellist (both women) were making love to each other; actually it was deeper than that: their musical responses to each other seemed to bare their souls to one other, and to us, the audience. We were allowed to see/listen in to their very beings. Completely enveloping.
No recording or playback system can ever reproduce that experience, so I am happy with reasonable quality HiFi most of the time, but I need overdoses of live music every now and again.
Andrew
Vladimir said:Being on a live event has the appeal of the crowd, the gregarious instinct, all as one, humility of indiividual self, the feel of history, participation, the huge SPL and just the reality of seing the musicians in roles of living icons/gods, brings explosion of happy mind numbing endorphins in your brain.
^ That makes live music LIVE. It engages all senses, not just the ears, as well as your intellect and full hormonal system.
From purely sonic perspective live music is mostly rubbish and many times it is unbearable. I've been on many band practices in small practice studios and the band live sounds, well, dissapointing. I much prefer recorded and produced music and so did Glen Gould.
Anything audio is mostly halucination and misinterpretation but lets not get into explaining how Evolution got us here.
Thank God for alcohol.
Cheers!
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