Paul Jacobson wrote:
>What I'm trying to do is use the F-M curve to apply something close
>to the ears frequency sensitivity at the recorded ambient level to
>the +50dB recording. It is imperfect but I thought it was worth
>exploring as a way of taming the LF (over)emphasis of high gain
>recordings. This is perhaps just a matter of taste, but I feel the LF
>boost is a misrepresentation of what is audible to the unaided ears
>of a listener standing in the same environment. Rather than simply
>chopping every thing below 100hz this method will hopefully give a
>better balanced result.
I agree. 50dB seemed like a lot, though. I have been assuming that
nature recordists typically like to listen to environments boosted
maybe 20dB in level, but that's off the top of my head and now I
should do some measurements.
The relationship between the natural and the amplified listening
levels has nothing to do with the amound of preamp gain we use,
typically 50-60dB.
-Dan Dugan
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