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Gary Eickmeier wrote:
OK, now that I have been solidly put in my place, I am here because I am
learning recording.
I accept that, and I note your considerable enthusiasm for the process.
I encourage that.
What I'm trying to get you to realize is that in my opinion, which may
or may not be shared by others here, is that years of enjoyment of a
particularly fetching but vastly distorted reproduction configuration,
coupled with your obvious intelligence, study, and appreciation of
theory have deluded you into thinking this somehow constitutes a body of
professional experience.
This leads you to want to argue instead of _listening_ to what you are
being told, much as you wish to look at waveforms to delude
yourself/reinforce your mix concept instead of closing your eyes and
listening.
Gerzon's work may well enjoy further develoopment, but the basics of it
have not been and likely will not be refuted. Accepting that and
therefrom working through your own invalid concepts in order to
understand the results of his work, the tools derived from that, and the
sonic results thereof, is crucial for you if your desire to learn is
sincere.
And that's just for the fancy part of this work. The simpler steps are
learning how to figure out where to put a mic or mics to capture as
closely as possible what is intended. I was not kidding in an earlier
post where I suggested giving up surround work right now, in favor of
first learning how to get _an excellent monaural recording captured with
a single mic_. Do some of that using different mics with a variety of
patterns, Then advance to an X/Y config and appreciate what that offers,
since you will have learned how to figure out where to put mics.
Please note that I am not saying you should "learn where to put mics".
That approach is for websites and magazines that will lead you to
purchase stuff, and are therefore happy to tell you where to put which
mic and when. Many people take that approach because it's a lot easier
than learning how to figure out where the mics ought to go in various
situations. They then accept that the sound, for better or worse, is
what it should be, because they put the mic where it should go. As a
result, mediocre work litters the landscape.
And so forth, _after you set up a reasonablly well controlled playback
room and system_. Get monitoring together, and then experiment one step
at a time. You don't need six tracks right now. You need to learn how to
get _one terrific track_. Stop listening to sound and start listening to
music. The music will tell you what's wrong with the sound, whereas the
sound will blame all its shortcomings on the music. Your job is to
prevent the sound from getting away with that bull****.
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shut up and play your guitar * HankAlrich.Com
HankandShaidriMusic.Com
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