Muchas gracias, amigos y amigas (I know there are some out there) - psgary - Music Lane

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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

Muchas gracias, amigos y amigas (I know there are some out there)

In Reply to: At the risk of baring my ignorance . . . posted by psgary on June 30, 2002 at 19:28:55:

If I understand them correctly, the explanations help explain why so many classical recordings sound flat and undistinguished. Too much mucking about with compression, I'll wager.
I'm going to hazzard a guess that many recording engineers have little knowledge of classical music and have not attended many concerts. Thus, they compress away and mess with sounds.
This strikes me as an apt analogy: the problem with TV directors and ballet. Directors show their ignorance of the medium through overuse of closeups, etc. They've been taught that you can't just stick a camera in place and leave it there. As a result, ballet on tape and film is very unsatisfactory. Rarely is the whole stage shown, which nearly destroys dance. What the director is failing to realize is that dance isn't just about movement. Equally important is the dancer's relationship to space, i.e. the stage. So you need to see the stage - a lot! Their lack of knowledge about the artistic medium hampers a really effective presentation of the dance. What they've been taught has to be ignored some - or much - of the time to dynamically capture the performance on tape. We need TV/movie directors who are ballet afficiados to direct performances of dance.
This is not a slam on recording engineers. What I'm suggesting is that we need recording engineers who are highly knowledgeable classical music buffs to properly capture the music on CD/LP. Don't you think that would help?
Thus ends one man's opinion. Next?

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Topic - At the risk of baring my ignorance . . . - psgary 19:28:55 06/30/02 (8)

Muchas gracias, amigos y amigas (I know there are some out there) - psgary 19:26:15 07/01/02 (3)

you may have left out ....... - TOOL 08:57:15 07/02/02 (2)

Good point - psgary 21:16:19 07/02/02 (1)

it can be vice versa as well. <nt> - TOOL 23:19:21 07/02/02 (0)

Start here - Art J. 20:10:12 06/30/02 (3)

also, from Steve Hoffman's BBS... - Aroc 17:45:43 07/01/02 (0)

But again, the article IS nearly 3 years old (txt) - Radiex 21:08:48 06/30/02 (1)

Three years later and the situation is even worse - sgb 07:26:30 07/02/02 (0)

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Muchas gracias, amigos y amigas (I know there are some out there) - psgary 19:26:15 07/01/02 (3)

you may have left out ....... - TOOL 08:57:15 07/02/02 (2)

Good point - psgary 21:16:19 07/02/02 (1)

it can be vice versa as well. <nt> - TOOL 23:19:21 07/02/02 (0)

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