In Reply to: Re:The lattitude in that definition is huge.. posted by theaudiohobby on January 23, 2007 at 10:56:25:
"A violin in a highly reflective small hall will sound steely especially to those who seat in the front rows"Only if it is a cheap shit violin or a really bad musician. Have you actually done this?? My ex-girlfriend use to practice in our 25 square meter main room. It was sometimes VERY loud but NEVER steely sounding. Of course she was playing on only top shelf instruments. I have done several recording sessions with here in small studios (music studios not damped recording studios) and small concert halls and even standing 1 or 2 meters from the instrument it would never be called steely.
You probably right that lacking body has to do with the processing or the recording equipment itself (if it is cheap then you can get a sound lacking body).
"As I mentioned earlier, I wish I could agree with you but I cannot, I remember an incident a while back where a composer about to listen to a performance of one of his own pieces commented on the deleterious effects of the hall acoustics on the sound of the orchestra."
Be that as it may the deleterious effects of the playback chain on the realism can be much more extreme. Live still sounds live regardless of so so acoustics. It is this "liveness" that is lacking in most systems.
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- Re:The lattitude in that definition is huge.. - morricab 15:16:29 01/23/07 (2)
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- Re:The lattitude in that definition is huge.. - morricab 03:03:46 01/25/07 (0)