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RE: A question about fidelity

Hey Beppster (may I call you Beppster?), as a musician and audio "engineer", I 'get' the issues with making a recording at a live event. :)

If the recording is made via a sound reinforcement desk, things can become a bit sticky. This really depends upon the venue, the sound tech, and the various feeds they have available - but I'm starting to repeat myself. ;)

In "smaller" venues, with good equipment and decent acoustics, a live recording from the desk can be very good, and even exceptional.

I want you to buy two recordings: The aforementioned Roger Ingram CD (and remember to say that Dave sent ya), and Eric Clapton's "One More Car, One More Driver" DVD. These are examples of great recording with and without separate feeds for the audio, and in completely different types of venues.

BTW, in my previous post, there was a "half sentence" at the end. Ha! The point was going to be that Roger was the lead trumpet for Harry Connick for like 20-25 years. Roger is a great guy, an awesome trumpet player, and extremely smart musician. This his first "solo" CD, and, even live, he didn't miss a note. Buy it - it might get me a free bottle of root beer! lol

Contrast Roger's CD with Eric's. Eric's is the whole big deal, with multi-track audio and video mixed separately for each distribution channel. I don't know Eric nor his audio crew, nor how they track/store the performance.

:)



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