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In Reply to: RE: Live violin... posted by slapshot on July 16, 2016 at 20:10:11
Most live concerts I attend still produce something even the best audio systems I've heard don't offer. Of course it can be a bad hall, or include too much "electronic sound reinforcement". Then a decent recording on a good system can win out.
But for me there remains something about the dynamics, sense of space and air, and simply overall "presence" with live acoustic instruments/voices that our systems have not equalled.
"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk
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Yes, dynamics and the attack were things I particularly noticed last night. Of course, there is also a visual element when live as you can see the violinist's body movement and facial expressions, which also can contribute to the overall experience.
I'm sure the hall has something to do with it. More familiar with rock, but I know in Cleveland when you went to a concert you wanted to go to Public Hall rather than The Coloseum, the latter being built for basketball. It was much harder to manage sonically and did not sound as good, but it had the capacity. If a band only wanted to do three shows instead of ten that was the venue.
And then there's the studio. Every nuance of the sound can be controlled. I heard from a musician once there is/was a recording studio had a well dug to use as an echo chamber. I consider that going to pretty great lengths (or would that be depths) for the sound.
Many rock bands sounded better in studio, that may apply to artists in other genres, why not ?
So if you got a good hall or studio, good recording engineers, a really good recording and a really good system, It is conceivable it might sound better than a violin playing in a baseball stadium or something.
They had rock concerts at the stadium here before they tore it down. The capacity was bigger than anything around. Being open air it did not pose alot of audio problems except for the need for massive amounts of power.
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