"Hal, why did you redo that break at 11:40? I thought we'd agreed tha..."
"Well, Dave....I was reviewing the previous 5:40 and it seemed to me to not have enough cow bell...."
Is Recording quality the real culprit?
We spend Thousands on trying to improve the sound of what we listen to. But isn’t it really more of a problem that we can’t really overcome, eg. Recording quality? It’s so frustrating to have a really nice system and then to be at the mercy of some guy who just didn’t spend the time to do things better when things were being recorded.
Fortunately many artists make sure things are done well, but so many just don’t make it happen.
It can sound really good but just doesn’t have that Great quality we desire.
So why are we wasting our time spending so much money on audio equipment?
Showing 4 responses by asvjerry
@ibmjunkman ....I suspected such, but thanks for the low down on exotic waste treatment and the means to do so.... One can apply the same routine with different means to the end with recordings, and it likely happens more often than one might think or even notice in a listening sess..... The means to do such is not typical except for the most rabid of 'philes, and would require really deep pockets to be able to 'remaster' and mop up the mess one hears to their approval.... Best common example: Movie sound tracks. Waiting for AI to be turned loose into those mixes.... ;) |
@searchingforthesound ....Ever since I ’graduated’ from Treble+Bass, to adding Loudness and later Midrange, what I heard in the spaces I’ve occupied has only tended to improve as my ’tempered’ use of eq became more....’broadened’. The advent of DSP, even when done manually, was a Great Leap Forward in dealing with random rooms with porschitt acoustics...when it went to more (11>31) channels of fq to being able to push 100 and more,.... ...which....finds you spending over an hour over a 3.5 minute snip.....'Just 'cuz it annoys you.....' Pick your depth.....no holding your breath..... ;) @emergingsoul is where I see AI getting into the ’mix’, as it was and became. Obviously, a long learning curve awaits, but AIs’ are being a surprise on many levels; something us ’amateurs’ really haven’t grasped yet. Generational Programming is already in progress for AI: One ’teaches others’, who ’teach others’....’scaling’ in that sense... ...on about the 4th >5th generation....’they’ Forget ’things’....!? "I can do that all by myself, Thanx HAL....(*sotto voce* "...’springhead, fu2....")" I look forward to ’discussions’ with my audio and general purpose ’puters..... ’Pulling the plug’ Is Not a Threat anymore.... |
@megabyte I suspect that jazz drew the better engineers and gear due to 'cred'; a more 'established' popular genre with the cognoscenti while early R&R was a bastard child of 'the kids' who just wanted loud & raucous... Then, acts like the G. Dead appeared that not only wanted to have feckless concert sound with the Wall of Sound, but recording that reflected the same..... Art pushed tech, which pushed art, and the cycle still continues.... ;) I like to peruse the sound gear at live concerts and events to see what's being thrown at us. Given the amount of screens and sliders that even smaller venues are cropping up, AI-run sound in the studios isn't far off.... "...soon you'll be dancing to "The White Zone is for loading or unloading Only..." F. Zappa, "Joe's Garage" (I forget if it's Act One or Two....) ...or the sound of camera drones fluttering about.... ....or the prices of tix to concerts.....makes going to a baseball or B'ball game cheap in contrast..... "Living in the modern world is like having bees in your head....." Firesign Theatre. |