What keeps this 'business' alive is the fact that music, and the listening of it, is TOTALLY subjective by the user. We may both have the same musical tastes and the exact CD copy yet hear it differently, even on the same set of speakers/monitors.
The same holds true for the recording of music. I've been in the recording industry for 37+ years and have a specific philosophy in the studio when tracking. While a LOT of engineers prefer a certain mic pre-amp because it has a color of its own, I prefer a 'wire-with-gain' type of preamp that adds nothing to the sound. I then select the microphone based on what I want to hear from the source... kind of like a reverse speaker selection. All this to say, your ears and brain will tell you what YOU like, and it will certainly be different than what I will like. Most studios do have multiple sets of monitors in each controlroom, just to hear how the mix will 'sit' on a variety of playback systems. When tracking I want to hear the problem areas, but while mixing I may 'downgrade' to a consumer type as another reference. Even so, if 100% of the buying public liked everything I did all the time, I would've had multiple platinum albums on the wall a long time ago... but that's not the case. Just get what you like and tell everyone else to take a flying leap! ;-) -- Eric Seaberg Eric Seaberg - San Diego - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Seaberg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7896 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49757 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
