Hear! Hear!, Klas. Great observation.
Bernie
On Nov 3, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Klas Strandberg wrote:
> Dan, Bernie and all
>
> For 40 years I have been promoting the use of parabols, well aware of
> that parabols twist "reality" and create illusions. I have been
> fighting a war against "purists", telling me what a terrible person
> I was.
> But "we" won that war, Dan, Bernie and all. And myself. It ended 20
> years ago.
> Today I hear no voices at all, not anywhere, being "purist" about
> flat frequency curves or non-editing or anything like it.
> "Every recording is an illusion".
> Yeah? Who claims differently nowadays? Where is this massive global
> commercial sound production industry, aiming for "purity" and
> forbidding us poor nature sound recordists to switch a filter "on"?
> I don't see the threat.
>
> I do see, however, a need for "quality" discussions.
> I like words like "sonels" and "splashing," because such words give
> us ways to describe the quality of a recording. I would like a long
> list of such new words together with sound examples.
>
> Why is that considered so wrong?
>
> Klas.
>
>
> At 16:59 2012-11-03, you wrote:
>>> If all the above sounds like "manipulation", that started with the
>>> choice, placement and aiming of mics, recording level, and decinding
>>> when to push the record button.
>>
>> Ansel Adams made a lot of adjustments in his negatives when he
>> printed them.
>>
>>> I've got weeks of rubbish recordings, but the ones that go out are
>>> those which, to my mind, represent the wildlife in this area. It is
>>> the end result which matters.
>>
>> It's an art of illusion.
>>
>>> BTW I've just put a stereo file on Soundcloud asking what is wrong
>>> with it:
>>> http://soundcloud.com/stowford/wren-and-stream-stereo-check
>>
>> Out of phase?
>>
>> -Dan
>>
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