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Speakers That Sound Like Music
"Audio Empire" wrote in message
... On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:51:19 -0700, Arny Krueger wrote (in article ): OTOH, you are correct about rock and some other forms of pop. These performances were created in the studio where they were recorded, Obviously only true of studio recordings. Rock and pop groups still give regular live performances, and still distribute recordings of those live performances. Who said they didn't? And those concerts sound just like the studio recordings except with the added audience response. ???? When a musical group plays for an audience, the presence of the audience generally affects the playing. Musicans say this often. The presence of an audience in a room changes its acoustics, often quite dramatically. There is really no way to duplicate what the audience hears in a recording. They have to be that way. Not in this universe. The audience attends the concert to see and hear their favorite bands play their favorite music and this music MUST sound to the live audience like it does on the recordings the fans bought of that music. Mission impossible! and essentially only exist as an electronic waveform. The same can be said of even minimal-miced orchestral performances. That's wrong. Orchestral performances can exist without microphones, without SR and indeed without electricity. You've missed the point. The acoustical performance does indeed exist as a sound field, but that is not the same sound as exists on any recording of it. Therefore, the difference between recordings of popular recordings that you claim does not exist, since both only exist as electronic waveforms. Whatever a recording engineer/producer does with microphones is completely after the fact and irrelevant to the music making. This of course depends on whether or not the musicans are using monitor speakers or earphones. OTOH, rock performances don't exist at all without these things. Ignores the existence of rock recordings and performances that are "unplugged". Solid body electric guitars make almost no sound without their amplifier/speakers. Instead of treating electronic instruments like they are alien objects, consider the amplifier/speakers to be like the sounding board of a piano. That is indeed their purpose and function. This can be independent of whether or not the performance is being recorded or not. Fender Rhodes pianos (and other electronic keyboards) make, essentially NO sound without their amps/speakers. Again, a mountain seems to being made over a small molehill related to the construction of the instrument. Rock vocalists need a microphone to do what they do and the performance, the way the audience hears it, does not even exist outside of the mixing console. In fact many rock musicans have robust voices and can perform unplugged. OYOH, I've been at a number of nominally classical performances where the vocalists used amplification. That's why, when on tour, rock groups have to take their mixing consoles with them. In fact there are any number of rock and other popular music groups that play small venues and have no centralized mixing facility at all. Jazz and folk singing groups come to mind. The difference here, is that instead of the "mix" going to a recorder, it goes to SR amps and speakers. That way, the audience hears their favorite band playing their favorite songs in a way that sounds just like the recordings of those songs. The degree to which groups are concerned that they sound just like their recordings varies greatly. Most of the groups I've worked with are more interested in just sounding good. IOW, I don't get your point. That appears to be due to a lot of false information and biased interpretation of correct information. |
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