On Saturday, January 24, 2015 at 7:19:16 AM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
JackA wrote:
Though I've participated in usenet since around Y2k, I'm curious what this =
group is about? Anything and everything related to Audio? If so, why the "=
pro"?
This is discussed in the charter. This is a group about audio production..
It is NOT a group for discussing everything related to audio, even though
some newcomers seem to believe it is.
There was a time when pretty much everyone in the group was regularly
involved in the audio production business, either sound recording or
reinforcement, but like most of Usenet the group has fallen on hard times..
Me, I enjoy music, mainly past music as far back as the '50's. I enjoy find=
ing the highest quality sound. I began digitally enhancing older CDs, becau=
se I felt it made the sound more like the vinyl records sounded. I feel man=
was too quick to master audio CDs, think digital audio apps really help wi=
th sound detailing. Computers were too slow to be of aid with mastering bac=
k in the later '80's. Agree?
What the hell is sound detailing?
Back in the late eighties mastering houses were all using Sonic workstations
and they worked just fine. Nobody did their processing in the box, but then
again most mastering houses still don't.
Scott,
Thank you. What is sound detailing? As I feel, ANYONE can mix music, it doesn't take any rocket scientist. Do you believe there is ONLY one way to mix music, and whatever was the "hit" version, that's the way it should stay mixed forever? I don't, but some other do. For the sake of what sound detailing is, where the heck were all these acoustic guitars in Steve Miller's - Joker song?...
http://www.angelfire.com/empire/abpsp/images/joke3.mp3
A crummy original stereo mix perhaps? This portion sounds okay, but on CD, the longer album version sounds like crap. Just my Opinion.
Jack
--scott
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