On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:52:46 -0500, Howard Ferstler
wrote:

For me, a rock concert is an end in itself, and so are rock
recordings. There is no way such recordings can be
configured to simulate a live-music experience, because the
live-music experience itself is loaded up with electronic
distortions right there in the hall or auditorium.

You are apparently laboring under the impression that recording
engineers put microphones in front of the bank of PA speakers to
record the concert.

You're wrong, you know. You MIGHT get some ancillary microphones in
the soundfield to help with the ambience that you crave for such
things as "surround sound", but the majority of the recording never
leaves the soundboard, except to be transferred to the recording
medium.

It's still important to be able to accurately record the sound of
"distortions", since guitars and amps have distinctive sound
characteristics that are important to the sound of the group. A
Marshall stack sounds different than a Vox AC-30 for instance.