TheLastMan;593301 Wrote: > I see Clive b's point to some extent, but how often does an audience > member stand so close to a drum kit that he can distinguish which drums > are on the left and which on the right? In fact there never is a "real" > stereo image of a drum kit at most rock concerts as the sound from the > various drums is fed out through different speakers to give the > illusion of a massive, stage filling drum kit! Fair point. It is very rare indeed to attend a concert where the kit is not fed through a PA and is close enough to hear properly. Apart from the aforementioned event with Louis Belson at Jeffries HiFi, the only other public performance I can recall where the drums were unmolested was seeing the Elton Dean Quartet upstairs at a pub in Walthamstow back in about 1976. I was sitting about 6 feet from the kit. (Elton began the evening by apologising that his usual drummer was indisposed, so we'd have to "make do" with John Marshall :-)
But all this is to be expected - the sound quality at rock concerts is routinely dreadful. As far as recorded music is concerned, giving the drum kit a realistic ambience is entirely possible and would enhance the listening experience. But it never gets done. It's probably just a dogma these days that you record a kit with at least a dozen mics and then try to reconstruct it in the mix. Engineers and producers probably don't even give it a second thought. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82155 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
