The internet has made the collecting of bootleg recordings much easier than ever and over the years I have up many very good recordings with many of these recordings often rivaling in sound quality officially released live recordings. For the most part I tend to stick with what are called "soundboard" and "FM" recordings, which are basically made from the direct microphone and instrument feeds going to the soundboard and mixed on the fly. The other two main types of bootlegs are audience recordings, which are made by audience members, either illegally or with the full permission of the artists and matrix recordings, which are mix of a soundboard recording with an audience recording.
What I've noticed is that for the most part soundboard and FM recordings usually sound better than even the best audience recordings (and there are many excellent sounding audience recordings available). So my question is this: when one is at a concert the sound is often quite good - well balanced and crystal clear with nice high end and good but not over powering bass, however many audience recordings, even those made using top quality microphones and equipment located in a prime spot and with the permission of the artists often sound unbalanced, muffled and bass heavy. Why is this the case and what is happening to make the sound captured by the microphone so different from the sound captured by one's ears? Hopefully this thread will not lead into a flame war :) Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103920 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
