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In Reply to: Is there a lot of distortion on most popular genre CDs??? posted by John C. - Aussie on May 14, 2006 at 17:32:46:
lost of little mono images between the speakers.When you throw a handful of pebbles into a pond you are going to get lots of of interference effects as the waves intersect, so will you in such recordings EVEN IF they are all in matching polarity. I can't 'all at once' press MY ears up against all the instruments and singers.
Think about just two pebbles close to each other, and then keep adding notional pebbles and you'll soon find that the interference effects at wave edges will start rapidly to outnumber the number of mikes, once you pass 5 or so. I understand and accept that this is how popular genres are recorded, because a mike per singer was the go already before stereo. But, I don't have to like it or prtend it isn't there because it always is there in such recordings, audibly so, often glaringly.
Close miking makes clipping more likely.
And it also alters timbre.
So, even Denon's efforts, and DG's 4D are flawed.
Even if you don't do anything else, and everyone does a LOT more in the popular genres, you are in trouble anyway.
Why anyone in the classical / acoustic music recording industry can justify applying PPMMMono when they fought so hard for stereo I just can't figure.
And don't tell me doing any version of 'real stereo' is too hard / takes too long. Most venues are well understood and 'simple engineering' engineers can do it and make money. A mike forest must take a lot of time to set up, no? Let alone take down.
I think it is just a habit, and it's not a good one.
I don't give a rats arse that many recordings are poor from this perspective, I don't see why they have to be.
Peter Quortrop of AN posited a test for 'have I improved my stereo' do all my recordings sound more musical, and yet at the same time more distinctly different one from another? if yes, have a tick. or one each time it gets 'better', both ways. and it has
My recordings would be about 65% classical or acoustic, and the rest popular mostly 70's and country rock, like Gram Parsons, through Ry Cooder, Little Feat, and the music does get better, but the lack of a coherent whole remains wearing for me anyway.
WarmestTimbo in Oz
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- There IS another reason, pan-potted multiple-(close)miked mono. - Timbo in Oz 00:24:31 05/19/06 (0)
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