Dan Dugan wrote:
> Curt Olson, you wrote:
>
>> One of my earliest and strongest impressions of nature recording was
>> that of being blown away by the extreme amount of low end my
>> recording gear was picking up and amplifying into the headphones.
>> This sounded absolutely unnatural to me compared to the way these
>> environments sounded to the "naked" ear. Some low frequency cutting
>> seemed to help restore the tonal balance I was hearing naturally, so
>> I figured maybe that's how I should record it.
>
> I suggest that that effect is simply a demonstration of the
> Fletcher-Munson loudness curve. When we listen to a low level
> ambience, our ears are very insensitive to the low frequency energy
> that's there. When it's turned up 20dB or more, all of a sudden we can
> hear it.
Of course... the loudness curves! I keep those in mind for studio
mixing, but somehow managed to not translate it to this. Duh! Thank you
for the reminder.
Curt Olson
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