pfarrell;302578 Wrote: > chinablues wrote: > > good was the signal path to my ear? Realise that this has been > > discussed endlessly before...but whenever I listen to 'live' music, > I > > always wonder what really is 'live'. Maybe Opera; but not really a > > band in a pub. > > If there are electronics and speakers, they are part of the music. > While its impossible, I like the philosophy of The Absolute Sound, the > > sound of voice or acoustic instruments in real spaces. > > I recently went to hear The Seldom Scene. There was so much reverb on > the voices that it nearly made me leave. > > It took me a long time to realize that what Les Paul created with his > "log" was not a louder guitar. The guitar, amp, and speaker, together, > > is the instrument. You just can play some of it the same as a folk or > Spanish guitar. > > When a guitarist puts the signal through a tube amplifier that is > overdriven, that is not distortion, that's what the artist wants it ot > > sound like. > > > -- > Pat Farrell PRC recording studio > http://www.pfarrell.com/PRC
Yes the amp+guitar are indeed the whole instrument - that's what you are playing...to make the sound. I don't buy this "only acoustic instruments are the truth" codswallop. It's just as hard to (try and) reproduce the sound of a Les Paul wailing through a Marshall Plexi stack on FULL as it is to reproduce a double bass (say)...certainly one is going to tax the microphone rather more than the other! Most home systems can't create anything like the visceral thump of a Marshall (et al) stack... Most studio monitoring systems struggle IMHO. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer (Audiocomm full mods)- Linn 5103 - Linn Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47613 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
