Popular Post ferenc Posted April 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 11, 2020 On 2/28/2020 at 8:01 PM, Shimei said: Likewise, has anyone ever sat above a dozen violins on the balcony of an indoor concerto? No electronics, that is, no speakers etc. Just percussion, horns, stringed instruments and pure vocals. Or an Opera where the singer turns and faces another direction? Has anyone ever heard a man made system that could reproduce the reality of that kinda soundstage? The "all that exists here now" or "is" in the moment? Has any technology "achieved" or "surpassed" that kinda standard? Are we living in the Matrix? 🤣 In all seriousness, doesn't the reference or standard bearer become the very source in which everything else is measured? If so, then very observer/listener themselves may become subject to distortion or not perfectly "reflecting" back the source. Actually to enhance our senses and to educate our brains, regarding recordings and mics and music production technology, I organized the so called My Reel Club events, where you can go to the studio and sit just meters away from the musicians, instruments while the recording is made live and without any post-production, processing, practically only a mixing session on the recorded tracks, if we use more than two mics. It is very different experience than being on a concert and sitting far from the stage. The studios rather small, there is usually no way to squeeze more than 20-30 people so it is comparable to the situation when the musicians would visit you at home and play just for you. After the recording, mixing completed, you get the files (in DSD256) and can listen at home. Usually we measure the loudness and dynamics as well of the event so you can set your volume up to the same level if you want. This way you can understand not only what a direct instrument sound means in the studio, but the whole production chain as well, how many different ways a post processed commercial recording is changing the original instrument sound, dynamics, tonality, etc. Let me share a sample, it is 3:39 min long ( 800 MB size) from the Gabor Varga Quartet, cool jazz music recorded in December. There is no editing or any kind of digital processing in this track, it is only mixed using a large SSL analog console. The peak of this track was 92-93 dB, roughly 4m from the drums in the middle of the audience. https://we.tl/t-V2UIAnM6L0 jabbr, Superdad and semente 2 1 Link to comment
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