lixobix wrote > > Tom Crocker wrote >> No, a pickup doesn't pick up sound, it picks up current in vibrating >> magnetised strings. > No, the current is in the pickup, not the string; like a microphone. It > picks up the vibration and turns it into a signal. > > Wikipedia: "An electric guitar is a guitar that uses a pickup to convert > the vibration of its strings into electrical impulses."
Tom is right in the basic sense - a pickup does not pick up a sound. The same signal does not propagate to the environment as mechanical waves. We can correctly say that it does pick up a sound signal. I suggest to use the term "*sound signal*" which covers the mentioned sound (picked up by a microphone), electric string instruments, synthesised sound (both analogue and digital) etc. Sound signal is a more general term than sound. It can denote virtually any representation (electric current waveform, sequence of numbers) of a sound (ie. frequencies circa 20 Hz - 20 kHz). I must say that I am afraid that the whole definition a recording is going be hard to understand :( I was surprised by this statement: LordSputnik wrote > The recording is a container for audio tracks. Even if it contains just > one audio track, that doesn't make it an audio track. A glove is not a > hand. So a recording is not a result of mixing? You see it as an abstract construct of the input audio tracks plus the mixing information (the sequence of the mixer controls settings) not the actual result of mixing (the resulting audio channels i.e. left, right for stereo)? ...or the audio tracks you are talking about are the audio channels as a result of mixing? ----- Václav Brožík / pabouk -- View this message in context: http://musicbrainz.1054305.n4.nabble.com/RFC-STYLE-208-New-Recordings-Guidelines-tp4651054p4652257.html Sent from the MusicBrainz - Style mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
