empty99;164512 Wrote: > If one's using highly synthesized recordings (most rocks/pops) to setup > his system, you do not know at which points you started adding more > echo/reverb and "colorations" to the source. > Please enlighten me about the use of "seasoning" in classical > recordings, what is EMT? I only read of them trying to simplify/shorten > the signal paths to improve clarity and realism, even down to a single > omni mike in some venues. It's a luxury to having your very own > recordings to tweak your system with, in this case, u cannot go too far > off!
As I said, most pop/rock (and some jazz/choral - even a bit of classical) has been treated to the addition of artifical ambience either at individual track level or even (gasp) across the whole mix. Often this will have come from a very expensive Lexicon digital unit or (going back in time) an equally expensive EMT plate reverb unit. That's not say there aren't a lot of "natural ambience" recordings - mostly clasical, jazz etc. The problem facing the average person is how much of the ambience of the original recording - artifical or real - are they hearing vs. the sound of their listening room being added... The thing is, whilst a lot of producers, musicians etc can recognise the sound of a Lexicon (even the model in some cases) the average listener will never be able to tell real hall ambience from a digitally synthesised (very very close) approximation. So my point is that the "precious ambience" is a bit of a red herring in many cases. I'm not just talking about run-of-the-mill synthesised pop here. Most - possibly all - of the great studio rock/r&b/soul/blues/etc etc tracks have some form of artificial ambience on them - they'd sound dreadfull otherwise. -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30820 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
