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In Reply to: Re: Then I am totally confused. posted by Ted Smith on October 25, 2006 at 12:33:12:
it's interesting that our brains can perceive something as "fast" or "slow" even though they are both exactly the same source material played at exactly the same tempo.i suspect it has something to do with how our ears interpret transients and perhaps harmonics.
i'm currently in the middle of finalising the mixing and mastering of a massive 4-disc album project. i've found that playing around with harmonic exciters and even very slight level changes (particularly for bass and drums) can cause a subjective shift in the pacing of the music.
there's one particular song that's been very problematic, i've probably remixed it about a dozen times now, but it's interesting that very small level changes can change the "feel" of the song to change from "plodding" to "too intense" - the challenge is getting it to sound "just right".
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HowdyI agree about the transients. Tho we are in general insensitive to phase, we are sensitive to phase in transients (since transients are less well defined when their phase is mucked with.) So I believe that PRAT is related to the relative phase response vs. freq in transients, tho I have no idea if late highs relative to lows is "faster" or "slower".
-Ted
Just as attitude and body language can speak volumes without a word, we pick up on a collection of subtle cues that lend a very distinct sense of whether the music is being propelled or dragged along. In either instance the tempo is the same, and the recording will finish at the same time, but the vital life and energy is just MIA on the one. Perhaps a descriptive analogy might be the difference in actual and perceived energy between a tug and a barge. Both are traveling at the same speed, but the tug is doing so with palpable force.
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