I'm not saying it is a bad thing, I'm just saying it is the end of an era. We have a number of unedited videos from this period, and now it is not really possible to tell new videos are edited or not. Or people want them edited, and so on. I think this period served as a sort of reality check compared to years and years of heavily edited CDs. There is no stopping technology, and in the future we will see the same thing in video, flawless performances, and so on.
I don't consider reverb or removing refrigerator sounds editing so music as processing. Same goes for color correction. By editing I mean the matching of different takes to remove all the mistakes., not just changing camera angles. Interestingly enough, even in the dawn of the CD age, there never was a similar period--the digital audio was sometimes even rerecorded to tape, cut with scissors, and then put back on CD. There are also early CDs before the development of digital crossfade tools where the takes are just spliced together with no fade--just a kind of bumping sound. I think what Rob is saying about the real sound is true, although obviously the amount of reverb is variable. But CDs aren't "true" in the performance sense. I do look forward to 3D! I'm already experimenting....it is almost here.... And hopefully live concerts will continue. I think what CDs ceated was kind of a class issue--well funded artists with big recording companies could produce near perfect recordings. I'm seeing stuff on the net now that obviously cost tens of thousands of dollars, and makes the artists look very good indeed. And hey, maybe that is a good thing. I'll go work on learning my new "hair" plugin. And lose me a few pounds :) dt Hey, maybe it is a good thing. At 02:31 PM 10/10/2009, you wrote: > I don't know, David. When was it decided that the artistic > performance should be real? Sounds like a New Puritanism to me, and > these movements rarely last long. I agree that it has been an > interesting period, and one that I imagine will continue for some time > yet. > > > > Editing: I only ever added reverb, which I wouldn't say effected the > performance. My use of reverb lessened over time, and now I use none or > so little it is almost impossible to detect. The problem is that with > no sound shaping, just a dry recording, the resultant sound did not > sound like it did when I was playing. So which is the real sound? None > of the above. The use of reverb was an attempt to give an impression of > the sound I heard, but I never managed it. Of course, I spent no more > than 100 GB Pounds... > > > > I always viewed the video phenomenon as a meeting in the park or in the > bar, where a few of us share a few tunes and chat about our passion for > music. I never saw it as a professional promo. > > > > Rob > > -- > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
