[Audio Empire]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:43:53 -0800, Scott wrote
(in article ):

Point 1. Darkside of the Moon isn't a live album.

I don't recall supposing that it was.

2. many of the
elements in tht album and many many other rock albums are "acoustic."

Yes, of course, the vocals, the drum kit, any brass instruments used, are all
acoustic. But the guitars aren't and neither is the bass (usually a guitar
itself, these days, I suspect)


3. not much recorded classical these days is Live and real time. Most
of it is edited to hell and back.

The fact that classical and acoustic jazz are edited in no way changes the
fact that what is CAPTURED by the recording process is the sound of those
instruments as they played in real time and in a real space, just as you
would hear them on stage. There is no PA system between thos einstruments and
the recording microphone. When I go to the symphony, I hear the music altered
only by the acoustics of the space in which they are playing (and I am
listening) THAT is live music.

So the question remains: how do you discern the sound of "live" rock from
recorded, when it's never really live in the first place, and when the
concerts are engineered to mimic the group's recordings?

Certain elements do the trick. We do have experience with human
voices, drum kits, acoustic guitars, painos etc. We can judge the
quality of those elements aginst our experience with live music. Heck
just listen to the barrage of clocks going off at the begining of the
track called Time on Darkside of the Moon. Sounds pretty real.

OK, I guess that answers the question. It still all seems so very artificial
to me.