TheLastMan;592537 Wrote: > > > TheLastMan;592224 Wrote: > > > > How realistic does a drum kit sound? > > Or a choir in full voice? > > Or a solo piano?> > > These questions were serious, I would genuinely be interested to > know. Once again, as with all things, the realism of an instrument is 99% down to the method of recording. The playback device has little to do with it. I don't believe that the recording device is that important - mic placement, and resisting the urge to fiddle too much, seem to be the overriding factors.
I can't say too much about choirs and solo piano, but as an ex-drummer I'll say this: modern recordings of drum kits are invariably unconvincing. Yes, they have punch and good frequency response and all that, but the sum of the parts does not sound like a real drum kit. I put it down to the plethora of mics that scatter the kit onto multiple tracks which they then try to recombine in the mix. I think this somehow loses the essense of how the kit as a whole should sound. The most realistic recording of a drum kit I've ever heard was one recorded and played back on a Tandberg cassette deck back in about 1980. Louis Bellson was playing live at the opening of Jeffries HiFi in Brighton. A simple (and fairly cheap) stereo crossed pair was used to record him (and a trumpeter whose name I forget) while they played. Later in the day after they had left, it was played back and it was as if they were still there in person. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82155 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
