David Brinicombe wrote:
> 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.
That's as may be, but to deliberately downgrade a recording with low bit ra=
te compression seems wilfully perverse!
> Cleaned and polished digital recordings are
> manipulated to death.
Digital has nothing to do with this, but rather the production standards ap=
plied. If anything, digital has given us far more in the way of sonic optio=
ns than the analogue delivery methods that required significant compromises=
in recording, mixing, and mastering. (Context: I trained on open reel tape=
thirty years ago.)
> They make a happy noise but are they music?
Both, hopefully.
> Have you listened to a rock group with the
> technology switched off?
Sure. I have also listened to an orchestra with their technology (e.g. thei=
r instruments) turned off (that is, not playing). Sometimes I even prefer t=
hat sound.
> Which is "real" - live or processed? :-)
It's all real. That is the great secret. ;-)
-- Robin Parmar
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
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