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In Reply to: The PRoBLeM with PRaT (2nd Try) posted by Wilson on May 9, 2007 at 21:09:39:
i think sam's right-- to a point. recordings aren't as simple as a perfectly transparent microphone put into a perfectly presenting space with a perfectly transcribed to tape perfect performance of a perfect musician-- there's a LOT of gear between the performer and your ears if its on a record, and a lot of manipulation of the recording between the mind of the artist and your turntable! the ENTIRE process is one of aesthetic judgement (good or bad)-- so when PRaT comes into the picture-- i think what you said about prat either BEING or not-- i don't believe it can be 'added'-- just subtracted. usually there's a lot of folks in the chain trying to keep it... but by the time it gets to the end user... the entire process is started again with system design, and that can be TOTALLY jacked up.. i've heard a lot of PRaTless systems, to be sure. but that's all synergy- the entire PROCESS is synergy in keeping musical integrity- with wildly varying degrees of success in aesthetic choices from the selection of the instruments played to the hookup wire in the speaks. to some people.. they don't care.. all they want is background music.. so it's not an issue, and at 55 db, prat is invisible. and if you look at a lot of modern recordings-- music is reduced to a bandwidth blob of non-dynamic blast. even the most pratty stuff would reproduce exactly that.. a blast of garbage out from garbage in. system design is the same as that FM pop radio vs. a fantastically recorded ella fitzgerald gem. they perform different functions, and the tools that created them are as different as a teaspoon and a chainsaw, as are the aesthetics.SO.. PRaT is largely meaningless outside the continuum of this stuff. you can't have PRaT at all without earmarks, or it makes no sense-- so semantically, i can't know i'm making sense to you unless you've heard XY or Z displaying prat. any piece of gear, looked at in this way, has a hell of a matrix to make it through- and if it's lucky enough to not bung up music that's good, well recorded and mixed, well mastered, and well played back through a system composed of components that preserve the integrity of the original performance.. it MIGHT have prat! but then... what's the meaning of any ONE of those terms in regards to 'WELL'..
ugh.. only the french theorists could argue this forever.. google 'semiotics'...
yrsd
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