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In Reply to: RE: I heard a live violin and was struck by how powerful it sounded, hi fi suffers in comparison... posted by PhilJ on July 17, 2016 at 14:53:59
Exactly. I also think most acoustic instruments are much louder live than we realize sometimes.
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It may be that they are louder live but can I just suggest it's the dynamic range that's key, not loudness per se, especially in view of the overly compressed nature of much of today's music, CDs in particular but also LPs, SACDs, and yes, even hi res downloads. Even the stuff that's "normal," and not overly compressed, is compressed to some extent. Hel-looo!
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Yes, which goes back to your point below about the quality of the recording being key.
Seems to me there is probably no perfect way of recording a sound from a single instrument like the violin. Can one close mic something AND also capture the effect of the room with other mics? I don't know enough about the recording process to understand what the limitations must be.
Actually the recording quality comment was the other dude's comment. My comment has to do more with how the final product is engineered after the recording is made. Thus perfectly well recorded uh, recordings are being aggressively compressed. The overly compressed CDs, etc. may be fine in many or most other respects, e.g., frequency response, resolution, etc. It's the over-compression that's the real killer.
I agree....there are so many steps in the recording process where things can go wrong.
It's not about things going wrong per se.
The engineers compress the sound on purpose.
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I agree that they compress the sound on purpose, but I'm assuming that, in recording, there are certain tradeoffs as to the position of the mic, the type of mic, etc.
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