Thanks Pat and Phil, this is really facinating! I always assumed the artists wanted to be heard like they actually sound, it never occurred to me that their subjective impressions of themselves (once they reach the professional level) would be different from their actual sound. This must make it really frustrating for recording/mastering engineers!
On another note, I have sometimes heard that the recording process itself is sonically degrading to the original studio sound, due to bandwidth limitations. For instance, here's a quote from the space-tech-lab.com website (FAQ section), explaining how tube gears can remedy this problem: "Tube-amp has higher THD (total harmonic distortion) than transistor-amp by testing, but those THD created by tube-amp is all even harmonics which is very pleasant to ear and will not feel disturbing unless it is > 12% (proven test by actual experiment conducted by scientist) . But transistor-amp gives out odd harmonic distortions which is highly un-pleasant to human ear, by actual experiment, just 0.1-0.2% of odd harmonic distortion is audible and will create very un-pleasant feelings even to un-trained ear. We actually need those harmonics generated by tubes , it is because during the recording process, a lot of valuable harmonic information has been cut due to limited bandwidth processing, so the naturalness of those instruments will degraded, lucky those harmonics generated by tubes will compensate large portion of those lost information. That's why tube gear always sound more natural and pleasant, it is just simply more close to a real musical instrument or human voice." Can you please comment on this, is it actually true that existing harmonic information is lost in the recording process, due to bandwidth limit issues? -- NewBuyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NewBuyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7862 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30820 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
