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Just listened again to Anthony Wilson's "Seasons", the live concert recording on Montelleone guitars. The music does get a bit tiresome but it's hard to think of a better sounding recording of acoustic instruments.
I'd hope there are no added effects though. I can see why you might want to add them, but AFAIC there's no "magic of a live concert" effect you can apply post-prod...
That said, that may bring us back to the original question and the potential implication of capturing dynamic range.
EDIT: and the AV amp I have in my main stereo rig has a couple of (Dolby signed) processing modes to simulate different acoustic properties which can indeed improve the sound of certain very dry recordings (even though I only have a pair of speakers, no x:y set-up ... yet). I prefer that approach because I get to chose. Idem on my main (Mac) computer, I have a DSP plugin ("Hear") that works at the system level and allows me to tweak the sound; I use it to increase the stereo image just a little bit and boost certain frequencies to improve the sound at low listening volumes.
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04-02-2022 08:06 AM
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Originally Posted by grahambop
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Originally Posted by nevershouldhavesoldit
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
Funniest bit was overhearing an old lady in the town (with a Welsh accent) saying ‘I’m fed up with this bloody jazz festival, I wish they’d all bugger off!’
I guess she had a point, for a week the place was taken over by nerdy jazz fans wandering from gig to gig clutching their beer glasses.
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I wonder if part of the difference in sound is that in the 50s & 60s EQ, mixing and mastering was aimed at giving you a live concert experience when seated in a sofa in an ideal position in front of the hi-fi. These days. music production compromises between sounding good on a wide variety of sound systems from earbuds to cars, and not many people listen to true hi-fi speaker in the old fashioned sofa arrangement. Also, it seems like people want the musicians to sound like they are ten feet away instead of at a distance. I also think producers in more recent recordings tend to stress technical perfection over fluid playing.
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Originally Posted by KirkP
The aiming for technological perfection is probably a result of the move to digital mastering which makes it so much easier to cut and paste (without risk and without quality loss). Or even to record an entire album where no one ever shared the studio... which is just one of the reasons why I almost always prefer live concert recordings.
Grant Green, What is This Thing
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