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Re: Concert Hall at home -- high frequency rolloff is a dynamic event?

Usually microphones will be placed much closer to instruments than your ears would be when seated in an auditorium, at least for the seats I can afford. The closer microphones pick up more treble detail than our ears would hear when located further away. Hall reverberation should be recorded with other microphones but when it gets mixed into only two front channels, it's masked by the much louder music coming from the same speakers.

Bingo! It is basically impossible to reproduce the experience one gets from a mid-hall seat when the microphones were placed up near the front row or even on stage. Then again, I like to sit up front when I have the rare opportunity and I don't want my system to reproduce the warm, muddy mess of reverberant sound you hear sitting back in the hall.

Dave

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