LordSputnik wrote > > lixobix wrote >> Plucking an electric guitar string makes a sound, just like a voice. The >> pickup, like the mic, translates the vibrations (sound) into a signal. >> What is recorded is the signal, yes, but what is captured is the sound. > No, it doesn't have anything to do with sound. A pickup detects the > mechanical movement of the string, which isn't sound. If you played an > electric guitar in a vacuum, you would be able to record it even though > there can be no sound. The pickup detects the movement of the magnetised > string, and this moving magnetic field induces a current in the pickup, > creating an electrical signal which can be amplified and played back to > generate sound. > > > I've updated the PiratePad with my latest proposal, which incorporates > bits of the other proposals. I think I've solved the release track -> > recording problem, and I'm fairly happy with audio tracks now. > > I agree that it's madness to list instruments or ways of making sound in > the definition or recording.
You all seem to be OK with an audio track being a stored representation of sound. To me that makes no sense. It means any stored representation of sound is a recording. It that's the case, then everything else is in vain. "a recording is a set of one or more [stored representations of sound]" "a master is a stored representation of sound" Therefore: "a recording is a set of one or more [masters]" That's why I think we need to define the sources of recordings/audio tracks tightly. You may not think there is a solution to the problem, but you must recognise it, even if you choose not to address it. And all sound IS mechanical movement. Couple that with the fact that you can hear an electric guitar string without an amp, there is no way that in not a sound. Sure, the pickup and any pedals, amp, etc. may change the sound, so that the result is very different to the source, but this is true of singing into a microphone. It is a sound nonetheless. -- View this message in context: http://musicbrainz.1054305.n4.nabble.com/RFC-STYLE-208-New-Recordings-Guidelines-tp4651054p4652351.html Sent from the MusicBrainz - Style mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
