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Subject: Re: Digital Compression - was New SSM
From: "Gregory O'Drobinak" gmo_dunes=
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Date: Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:54 pm ((PDT))



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Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: Digital Compression - was New SSM



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>> At 96 Kb  /s, I reckon most music is OK, but
>> random sounds are getting tinkly.
>
> Except in special cases I can't bear music recorded at less than 192kbps.=
 128kbps is noticeably poor to me a significant amount of the time, without=
 benefit to comparison streams.

Robin,

My prejudices were showing. :-) Having recorded music on and off for nearly=

three decades professionally, I don't regard the end product comparable to=

live music. Cleaned and polished digital recordings are manipulated to
death. They make a happy noise but are they music? Do we believe that whole=

orchestras hold their breathing until the first note? Have you listened to =
a
rock group with the technology switched off? Which is "real" - live or
processed? :-)

I was the first BBC Film Recordist to take a multitrack rig abroad - to the=

Havana Jazz Festival. The music was a knockout, wild and raw, but I had to=

hand it over for the final mix and it was smoothed out with a "standard
formula mix" and un-jazzed. I actually walked out of one mixing session.

If we started multitracking birdsong and put it all through computerised
mixers, I would feel the same way. It's the ambience, atmosphere and natura=
l
background noises that make wildlife recordings sound "real" and
fascinating.

David Brinicombe











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