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In Reply to: Transient posted by psgary on July 31, 2002 at 18:15:05:
ATTACK , and/or specific articulation terms such as staccato, legato etc. are MUSICAL terms that I feel should be used rather than "transient response". Transient? No kidding! Short of endless bowing or endless circular breathing what note ain't transient? Within the concept of "transient" are actually many different possibilities of ATTACKS for wind instruments and percussion, or bowings for strings. A jazz players fat "BAP' is a different sound than a staccato attack, and it is meaningless to describe the reproduction of both with the blanket term "transient response". Beyond that, Woody Shaw's "bap" is different than Art Farmer's "bap". I gotta wonder how much some of the reviewers actually know when they get into the "transient" rap.As for "air"....... I'll be damned if know what the hell is meant by that. Different reviewers seem to mean different things when they use that term. If it is an attempt to describe clarity - in that a listener can sort of "see" or get a sense of clear, uncolored space between instruments - then I can at least make sense of it. To repeat an "air" anecdote:
I once brought a six eye Columbia recording of ballet music from The Red Shoes (Phila./Ormandy) down to Stereo Exchange in NYC. I didn't like the music so I was going to give it to the store.
Many old Columbia's, including this one, have some kind of added treble glaze which seems to attach itself to flutes and produce a layer of noise accompaning the flute in parallel. The salesguys at the store put the record on and said "Wow, what great air around the flute." I play flute. Believe me, symphonic flute players do not have air escaping/missing the tone hole in the headjoint to even remotely the extent portrayed on this record.
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- Re: Transient - Rick W 18:57:37 07/31/02 (1)
- Thanks - psgary 21:27:13 07/31/02 (0)
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