At 20:02 2007-03-01, you wrote:
>One of the neat things about audio digital tech is it's ability to
>handle a pretty wide dynamic range. Essential to enjoying the sounds
>of the natural world is that experience - from around 4dBA in a box
>canyon in the Grand Canyon area to 96dBA when the cidadas get cranked
>up in the Amazon Basin around 0900 hrs - and everything in between or
>beyond. In mixing and producing our titles, we never compress or
>limit because we want to maintain the illusion of that dynamic audio
>experience as much as possible.
>
>At the end of the chain, however, if one really needs to hear all
>things at all times at the same (or nearly the same) level, a
>Multicom Pro XL system
Hi! which model have you used?
Klas.
>can be installed in the playback amplifier
>chain that compresses as much as the listener wants, really leveling
>and "smoothing" out apparent and actual loudness. Restaurants that
>play their own CD or iPod selections, use this system almost
>exclusively. That takes the issue completely out of the hands of the
>audio producer/mixer and leaves destructive decisions to the listener.
>
>Bernie Krause
>
>
>
> >Yes you are right.
> >
> >I think it'd still be worthwhile to have an opening tag to help people
> >adjust the volume such as Mr Storm's. But if not, as long as the
> >target volume level falls in line with regular pop music I suppose
> >people will be in the ballpark more or less.
> >
> >I should've said 'most' media. I forgot about nature recording and
> >Bruckner symphonies:)
> >
> >Danny
> >
> >--- In "John Hartog"
> ><> wrote:
> >>
> >> Danny, you wrote:
> >> > You need to start with 'something' at a strong level...all media do=
es
> >> > this, movies, etc. Just the nature of things to make sure people s=
et
> >> > the proper level.
> >>
> >> Not sure what you mean by "all media does this." Starting with a
> >> strong level might be an effective way to suggest the appropriate
> >> playback levels, and that might be a fairly common technique, but I
> >> don't see it as something that is always done, and it certainly isn't
> >> necessary.
> >>
> >> Johnathan Storm's "Ancient Forest-Spring Chorus" begins with a
> >> "DocuTone Volume Regulation adjustment" track. Even with that track,
> >> I still end up adjusting the volume as the recording progresses, and
> >> in the end the recording would be just as enjoyable without the volum=
e
> >> adjustment track.
> >>
> >> What if a nature recording does not naturally start at a strong level=
?
> >> What if it starts quietly and gradually builds? It might not be
> >> appropriate to add an unnaturally loud segment at the beginning.
> >>
> >> John Hartog
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"Microphones are not ears,
> >Loudspeakers are not birds,
> >A listening room is not nature."
> >Klas Strandberg
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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>P. O. Box 536
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>t. 707-996-6677
>f. 707-996-0280
>http://www.wildsanctuary.com
>
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
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