No, that would miss the point. The guy is trying to replace live
musicians in a live performance space, unless I read incorrectly. Do
the test in a live performance space, not through speakers. Live
instruments are always at the mercy of poor reproduction.
This is what I do for a living. We play our best music in our smallest,
best acoustic spaces, with no amplification, to our smallest crowds, and
we play our worst music in our largest spaces, with bad amplification,
to our largest crowds. Such is the life of most orchestral musicians
nowadays in this fine country.
RBH
dhbailey wrote:
Raymond Horton wrote:
I don't see the fuss. A guy is trying to prove he can replace _live_
musicians, but does so by posting _recordings_, some of which are so
badly reproduced they could never be mistaken for live players, even
though the recordings were once made from live players. His
computerized recording sounds as good, or better, as some of the
badly reproduced recordings. This proves nothing as far as a
computer replacing humans. It proves that computer reproduced sound
is inconsistent, no matter what the original source.
Put the computer producing the sounds in a blind test in the same
room alternating with live musicians, _who are playing with no
electronic amplification_. That is the only test would mean anything.
I'd go one step further, since live acoustic instruments influence the
vibrations in the air vastly differently than loudspeakers do, and so
I would have both the computer and the live musicians in separate
rooms, amplified through the same set of loudspeakers in the room
where the testing was being done, so that the listener would hear both
sound sources through the same speakers.
And have professional sound engineers who have nothing at stake either
way control the amplification.
To have a person who is trying to prove a point provide the sounds
does nothing more than gives us all a clear example of why independent
testing agencies are a good thing.
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