Len Moskowitz wrote:
> Perhaps you've never heard a well-recorded binaural recording played
> back over decent quality headphones -- if you had you wouldn't have said
> that. It's about as realistic a recording as you can make, and the
> sound comes from all around you.
Len, how are you doing? I'm the dentist for PA that has e mailed you in the
past. Depending upon the venue and the type of music, there may be a
certain amount of the sound that is felt with your entire body as well as
heard with your ears.
Deaf people can sometimes "feel" portions of music, even though they can not
"hear" them. The best analogy that I could think of is the senses of taste,
smell and even sight. People might assume that you taste things because you
have taste buds in your mouth.
But if you can not smell the food, it will not taste the same to you. In
addition, even the color of the flavor effects taste to a certain extent. I
learned this way back when I was a Pharmacy college student.
If you see something green, you do not expect it to taste like grape.
Something that is grape flavored should have a purple color to it. You can
use the reverse example for lime.
It just throws your sense of taste off balance. Heinz recently released
green Ketchup!! It is a dark green that looks like the cheap enamel paint
that was used for the trim on the exterior of an old building.
I was at a recent family cookout where my niece had bought some. Many of
the adults refused to use it. They simply could not look at this green
paint and accept that it was going to taste like Ketchup.
As I have stated many times before, I have the highest regard for you and
your knowledge. I frequently suggest that people on this list contact you
at Core Sound because of your knowledge of microphones, making recordings
and cables.
But this is one time where I feel that no matter how good the recording,
electronics and headphones, it is still not going to give me the sensation
that I get with a good stereo system and high quality speakers.
You know that the venue where you are recording is going to require
different types of microphones and their placement. A giant arena isn't
going to have the same "feel' to the music as a 4 piece chamber ensemble.
So to make matters even more complex, depending upon the type of music and
the place where it was recorded, it may at times be essential to have at
least one rear speaker that has the ambient sound on it. Ideally the
recording of a large concert hall should be played back with even more
speakers along the sides and back, each which has a discrete signal
recorded using a separate mike at different lengths of the room.
Obviously, in the home environment this is usually not practical and it
certainly becomes a very complex situation for the recording engineer.
Depending upon the length of the concert hall, you might need a dozen
separate tracks to achieve this.
Also, somewhere along the line someone decided that deep bass is non
directional. I think this to is an over simplification. Compare a stereo
system with one sub woofer to one with a right and left placed sufficiently
far enough apart and where each speaker is only getting a discrete signal
from from the channel (rt or it) it is placed on.
I think that people with good ears and a decent sense of feel will notice a
difference between the two systems.
One last thing. Again at some point someone decided that the range of human
hearing was from 20 to 20,000 cps. Was this done after extensive testing?
Were they not able to find people who could hear beyond this range (I'm sure
that they found people who could not hear the full range)?
Or did they find that the percentage of people that can hear beyond this
range was so small as to make them statistically insignificant? We
constantly accept things at face value without ever knowing how these
"facts' were arrived at. Like "normal body temperature of a human is 98.6
degrees F".
What that really means is that for the vast majority of people, this is
their temperature when they are well. But some very healthy people run a
little hot or cold. That doesn't make them abnormal, just statistically
different.
Regards,
Larry Sherry
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