Tweaking Sound with Convolution

[fas42]

Okay, I can hear what the convolution is doing in the second clip; but, unfortunately, for me, the violin is too edgy, particularly when played more expressively - the natural "sweetness" of the instrument is missing, in this presentation.

[fas42]

This is good ... you're motivating me to get the NAD combo up and running again - it's working without a volume control at the moment; as I point out in my blog this was a significant quality weak link. I've got a replacement, which I've been "too busy" to install, . So, stand by ...

[fas42]

2 hours ago, STC said:

So please show us something tangible.

 

Well, I don't have a clear idea of what you mean by tangible - at this moment, right now, I don't have a system which can produce the quality I talk about; and the NAD setup hasn't been finalised, not by a long shot. And by that I mean it still hasn't given me the "invisible speakers" performance level - close, but not the full monty.

[fas42]

Note that the bird song sounds "real", and there are background sounds to it as it progresses. Now, play the original quality version of this through the system, and record that with the same microphone setup ...

[fas42]

Oowwww, that would be smarty pants!

 

BTW, something "tangible" to what I'm about, is understanding that if I'm asked to assess reproduction that I never listen for what's right in the playback - only to what's wrong ... so, I'm always, always going to point to anything which "gets in the way" of making me believe that what I'm listening to is "live".

[fas42]

This is sounding good ... I play your recording, and then the actual source track, available on YouTube - no obvious issues - nice one!

[fas42]

Since the No Sanctuary track is very rich with spatial information in raw form I'm not quite sure what you are after here - competent playback in plain stereo of the original should throw up a big soundstage, effortlessly.

[fas42]

I suspect that this will never be possible, no matter how good the recording of the playback is; the 3D effect results from the quality of the the playback system actually used by the listener to monitor what's on the recording, whether the original, or a manipulated or a capture of a soundfield version.

 

From experience, I can reasonably well translate what I hear on simple laptop speakers, to what it would come across like if the same track was played back on a competent system.