On 07/12/10 16:40, cliveb wrote: > But all this is to be expected - the sound quality at rock concerts is > routinely dreadful.
Well, that's largely a result of the venues being acoustically terrible, ie. large and reflective. > As far as recorded music is concerned, giving the > drum kit a realistic ambience is entirely possible and would enhance > the listening experience. But it never gets done. It's probably just a > dogma these days that you record a kit with at least a dozen mics and > then try to reconstruct it in the mix. Engineers and producers probably > don't even give it a second thought. Sure it's possible to get a natural, ambient drum sound, but the rock/popular music audience has become accustomed to "processed" drum sounds - that's just what they expect to hear. And to get those sounds you need to close-mic individual drums. >From an engineering perspective, "natural" is actually easier - stereo pair somewhere in front of the kit: job done. However, from a production perspective it's not so simple: need to find a room that sounds good, make sure the kit sounds good, etc. etc. I'd love to get back into it - I miss my time as an audio engineer. R. -- "Feed that ego and you starve the soul" - Colonel J.D. Wilkes http://www.theshackshakers.com/ _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
