On 6-May-07, at 6:51 PM, shirling & neueweise wrote:
the differences would be even more evident at a higher resolution, the aliasing significantly alters much of the real sound: winds suffer almost as bad as percussion instruments. the thinness of the wind sound at 15-18" (ex. 1) is typical of lower quality compressed audio, and at these resolutions the poor quality of the sound gives the "fake" an unfair advantage. the omnipresence of mp3s and compressed audio playback units would actually benefit the development of "machine" performances, once the reference of the live orchestra played on decent-quality recordings on passable systems disappears (on an individual basis i mean).
Good point. I didn't say that the sound quality of the examples was not high, but that was certainly a factor in what affected my perception. I admit, I was almost fooled by the steely clarinet in example 2, but that was just the player with a bright sound, and you could hear the flanging from the compression in his sound, which would have been a giveaway of a sample.
("crap sound" should be spoken with a glaswegian accent by the way, i think it has more impact: "e's go'a crrap sound")
I hear you! I wonder if we are thinking of the same sound engineer... Christopher _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
