hmmm, I apologize if i'm not making myself clear:
1) I don't have any problems with 'studios' or 'tuned spaces' but I took is=
sue with them being seen as the 'ideal'
2) lots of people mix on headphones, in their own homes in rooms that aren'=
t 'tuned' or haven't been turned into studios & achieve powerful & communic=
ative results.
3) no studio is built to some 'ideal' design that is a result of all the ac=
oustic research - they are all built to individual ideas of that ideal & ev=
ery bit of kit in them adds some colour to the process
4) the view that only sound edited / mixed in studios can work or has, in s=
ome way, more to offer is simply wrong - thats not my opinion, its a fact b=
orn out by the vast, vast majority of music & creative sound history
5) in 35 years of all kinds of involvement in various aspects of sound & mu=
sic i've yet to visit a single 'tuned' studio (in a home or a specific buil=
ding) that isn't cluttered up in various areas by boxes of gear, chairs, pe=
oples cd collections etc etc - all of which interfere with any 'tuning' tha=
t was done in the first place.
6) weighing up all the music & sound that comes out of pro-studios i'd plac=
e my bet on that more than 50% of it has very little creative or artistic v=
alue & a large amount of it could be seen as damaging the way we listen or =
our ears are trained to not listen (via the use of compression for example)
I hope that clarifies a bit.
--- In Mark <> wrote:
>
> Hi Jez,
>
> I am gonna take your bait, but ask you to succinctly lay out your argumen=
t. Since you have called out the Jedi masters on this list to qualify their=
short Zen like koans compared to your essays which I have yet to understan=
d. Your point as I have understood it so far, is that you don't wish for a =
studio to be thought of as neutral, but you really haven't given many other=
alternatives except to mention that their are an undefinable number of the=
m. Please excuse my ignorance of what you might be trying to say in all tha=
t, and you may have given alternatives, but have I missed them?
>
> Peace Out,
>
> Mark
>
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