I recently purchased this CD. The sound quality is awful, it is completely washed out with 'Hall Reverb' The individual notes can hardly be seperated in some of the faster passages. This recording needs remastering and the level of reverb reduced massively. If anything the reverb should only add a little 'wetness' to the sound, not drowned it.
Very dissapointing. Neil -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Durbrow Sent: 04 April 2010 00:16 To: LuteNet list Subject: [LUTE] Re: Marco dall'Aquila / O'Dette On Apr 3, 2010, at 6:55 AM, [1][email protected] wrote: I'm sceptical that - assuming the positioning of a main pair of mics is very good but not perfect - that adding in other pairs that are necessarily even less well placed will provide improved sound. Like DT said, you don't have to use the other mics. But I would like to change the term "improved" to "natural". I think that if there were a demand for it, there is already the technology out there right now to allow the listener to choose which mics/reverb/combination of such they would like to listen to. How hard is it to just release a DVD version instead of CD and choose the reverberation/mics just like you can choose the subtitles to a movie? For myself, not being an audiophile, the important thing with mobile recording is reproducibility. That is why I always use the same pair of mics in the same configuration (coincident) at the same distance. Not close to perfect by any means, but it means I can record nearly anywhere and get more or less the same sound. Quick too. Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan [2][email protected] [3]http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
