Gray Mastering
On 10/5/2015 1:15 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
In article , Neil
wrote:
What you've been describing sounds like what I'd call "popular
conventions", the rendering of musical instruments in a way that
professionals find pleasing. What I've been trying to convey is
that the whole process of recording is full of "grayness", those
technical or practical choices regarding how a musical event
should be rendered. So, whether things slide "backwards" or
"forwards" is pretty much embedded in one's expectations.
In the case of electronic music this is surely the case. But in the
case of an orchestra recording there is a standard reference as to
what it should sound like.
I stand by my statement, because what it "should sound like" is still
not what it *does* sound like when one is actually in the room,
regardless of genre. Furthermore, what it sounds like on a CD is a lot
different than what it sounded like on a 78. In short, popular
conventions are not necessarily a bad thing.
While we can have some discussions about whether it should sound like
the listener is in the balcony or the third row, the basic reference
for the sound remains and we can readily make a comparison between
the recording and the real thing to see if things are getting better
or worse. --scott
Perhaps, but they're still unmistakably different, and "better or worse"
is a matter of... popular conventions. ;-)
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Best regards,
Neil
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