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In Reply to: Studio components best for Hi Fi - here's why posted by benhen on February 15, 2007 at 14:55:48:
Intent -- Does the artist control or have significant input regarding recording techniques and setup employed, mixing/mastering? If not, then throw the artist's intent out the window. If yes, then unless you hear it directly from the artist, there is still no reason to assume the end result truly represents the artist's intent.These decisions and how successfully they're implimented have a great effect on whether the artist even has a chance of getting close to his/her intent: which mic to use for whom and placed where? how to set the musicians up -- all in the room? baffling? drums, bass, pio. in separate rooms? -- purist miking setup in front of the group? horns in one row? singer(s) in room or booth(s)? everybody need earphones? individual adjustable phone mix for all the musicians/singers available? multi-miked? live to two-track-no mixing? overdubs? edits? Then you get to mixing, if any is to be done. Then mastering, and every step could be done at a different studio, often with different engineers.
Studios range from scruffy to high tech SOTA and luxurious, likewise their playback systems. Plenty of high class studios utilize well known hifi equipment as well as top pro monitors/amps/gadgets. I've mixed using pro equipment which had great measurements. I've also mixed at a studio using a Moscode pre and amp into Tannoys. I mixed my recent big band jazz cd in my engineer's home mixing studio. He had 5 different sets of speakers set up (two pro sets, three consumer), all pro amps. Some studios have additional playback rooms which have audiophile style equipment, so after mixing with pro gear/spkrs. you can play it back on a better sounding audiophile style system. No doubt guys like Doug Sax, Bernie Grundman, Stan Ricker etc. have damn nice playback systems, sure as hell not comprised of 100% pro gear.
At any rate, the point is that a wide variety of playback/mixing equipment is employed at recording/mixing/mastering studios. To think they only employ pro gear is naive, as is thinking all the pro equipment they do employ is uncolored and accurate.
My own recording/mixing experience has shown me that I have to take each day's mixing work home to play through my own system. I do this even if I'm mixing at a studio that has what most of us would call a pretty good playback setup. But not all studios have that. Before I sign off on a mix I take it to several friend's who have decent systems different from each other's and mine. If I had to depend on the flat/depthless, brittle, bright, harsh, thin sound I hear through too many pro playback systems the end result would never approach my intent.
In short, its obvious to me that current measurement parameters are NOT the whole enchilada.
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- All sudios/engineers are not equal, nor the same. - Rick W 21:55:59 02/15/07 (0)
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