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In Reply to: RE: First of all posted by audiophilewannabe on May 30, 2016 at 12:48:00
I am surprised that no sound engineers have chimed in on this.
Perhaps because, like me, there's no substance to your observation. Would you care to cite a couple of recordings where you experience this to see of others share that phenomena in their systems?
For the most part, I don't.
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The discussion I found about this.. The discussion was mostly on headphones ...but also noticeable on a 2 channel..
http://www.head-fi.org/t/501948/stereo-imaging-vocals-towards-left-side
First of all, the thread wasn't here as you originally opined.
Second of all, I couldn't find any specific recordings mentioned either.
Simply Red picture book--Come to my Aid
Jericho -same album both tracks slightly left
Peter Gabriel- shock the monkey ---slightly to the right.
Marvin Gaye Lets get it on- Come get to this--slightly left
Tom Waits Asylum Years- Romeo is Bleeding- slightly left
don't have any of those albums so I cannot confirm your experience.
Perhaps others can.
As for "slightly left", I'm not aware of many concerts I've attended where the vocalist is standing dead center stage.
Do you have any minimally miked acoustical recordings that suggest the same problem?
"minimally miked acoustical recordings" kindly explain this please.
The vast majority of recordings are done using dozens of microphones closely miked to the instruments. A recording engineer then mixes the many "mono" tracks together adding some spice (EQ and reverb) and pans the various instruments across the virtual stage as they see fit. Imagine taking a dozen pictures up close of all the instruments (and individual parts of an instrument like individual drums) and voices in a recording as slides. Then hold them up to the light stacked together looking through all of them simultaneously. That's a multi-tracked recording.
Minally miked recordings, on the other hand, are like a GAF viewer using two stereo images. See the natural perspective and depth? They use two or three mikes (with perhaps a couple in the rear [Telarc]) and let imaging fall what it does naturally based upon the position of artists on the stage. Those are the ones that are spookily real.
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