> Even recordings that are "unprocessed" are processed (unbeknownst by > the original engineer) by goofballs at the pressing plant who don't > know how the machines work. This is the big problem... people are used to listen to edited recording and are not aware of this. So when they attend a concert and hear to the real thing, they are disconcerted and disappointed. The same holds for harpsichord concerts. Almost all the recordings has the harpsichord boosted up to the level of a gran coda piano while in the reality it's very soft and melting into the string orchestra, especially if the concert is done in a huge theater 4-5 times larger then what the instrument was built to effectively work into.
Aren't we supposed to be the *paladins* of HIP (no flame war please 8^)) why many of the people that actually do recordings accept the lute is boosted up, giving a false idea to the listeners of what the instrument realy is? Francesco To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
