[Trevor]

On 27/07/2018 3:13 PM, geoff wrote:
On 27/07/2018 4:13 PM, James Price wrote:
Just out of curiosity, if you were listening to a close mic'd
recording of a
cab in the same room that the cab was recorded in with said
measurement mic,
would the distance from the listener to the monitors naturally
reproduce the
appropriate room reflections / resonances necessary for the recording to
sound like the source to people in the room who heard it, thus
eliminating
the need to bake said distance into the recording?

To a degree yes.

And to as much or more of a degree, no.


But everyone in the audience will hear something
slightly different in some rooms, and very different in other rooms
rooms. Especially it there are strongly reflective surfaces.

Right. A listener will hear a lot more directional sound with less
reflection than the measurement mic will. IME even a directional mic
located at the same position as a listener will have far more room sound
when played back, than what the listener hears live. Your hearing
perception *IS* directional after all, and the brains ability to
discriminate better than most microphones.