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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2019 18:53:46 GMT
Two total & utter different entities.. Other than Balanced equipment being a Necessity because low noise & long cable runs are an importance, nothing else. You never see them swapping gear or transforming into some king of technical scientist unlike Hi-Fi Bozos do.. Studios Use bog standard Cables from proven Manufacturers such as Klotz & Sommer, Connector hardward from such as Neutrik & Studiocraft.. They use Graphic EQ, Arrays of EQ's on the Mixing console that btw has enough wire in em to cover a football field, they never question base metals or Plating of connector pins. The only concern they have it ultra reliability...
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Post by macca on Oct 25, 2019 8:04:14 GMT
Got some friends coming over tomorrow to do some recording at my place. I'm supposed to be the engineer because it's my equipment we are using. I don't have a fucking clue what I'm doing.
Anyway I agree, recording and replay have nothing to do with each other. I don't know why people keep going on about what is done in the studio. Whatever they do there is artistic decision, even if they use wire coat hangers for interconnects, that's their business. Playback system's job is to preserve as much of the artistic decisions as possible and not over-write them with the sound signature of the system. But I know not many people think that way anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2019 8:12:21 GMT
But it's kind of unanswerable anyway. How do you know whether or not your system is 'preserving the artistic decisions' and not over-writing them? Many hifi reviews say this or that component 'gets out of the way' and lets you hear as nearly as possible what was on the original recording, but how can that possibly be known?
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Post by macca on Oct 25, 2019 8:44:41 GMT
It's pretty easy to tell if the system is tarring everything with the same brush. At least I think so. I've got a best of Bowie album, covers about 25 years, if you play summat like that you should be able to hear the differences in production between songs recorded in different studios years apart. If they all sound like they were recorded at the same time and place then you know that you are not 'preserving the artistic decisions'.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2019 9:01:36 GMT
This is what i have been saying all week with the Beatles Recordings. Ive listened to the Beatles for 35 years on tons of different systems. That sound signature that those recording have, has been lost on the modern stripped down systems. But i can hear it more on old no BS systems. How do i know that certain sound exists, i just do  Leaving the Sound System thing. Those new Beatles mixes are again a similar thing. They seem to have lost the Magic that the older mixes have imho |
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Post by macca on Oct 25, 2019 9:23:05 GMT
I try to avoid remasters, and remixes are even worse. I want to hear what they did in 1971 or whenever it was first made. That's all part of it for me. I don't want it all jazzed up. Ollie's got a remix/remaster of ZZ Top First Album he played me a bit of. Sounds nothing like the original. What's the point? Just listen to some modern music if you want something new. Leave the classics alone. No-one was complaining about how they sounded when they first came out.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2019 10:25:41 GMT
Most proper studios will have spent a huge chunk on on the room before they even think about kit. We get it all wrong at home, spending loads on boxes and wires to compensate for a crap environment - just look at background noise levels for a start. My listening room is also my lounge/kitchen/diner. I have a fridge gurgling away, if it rains I get the rain noise on the windows and part of the roof, I can hear next door walking up their stairs. There's even a kettle in there. The room is a strange shape with no soundproofing at all. There is no way on earth I can get a 'faithful reproduction' of the recording so I just get it as best I can and enjoy it for what it is. But to spend thousands on wires, better mains etc etc when the room is so poor is a fool's errand.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2019 11:30:50 GMT
Ive been on Studio courses cos that is what i wanted to do at one point till i found out it was a costly game with no real financial benefits. The last course i was on. They were only using some tiny JBL control monitors but because of the totally dead environment in the studio they sounded big, Very spooky those dead rooms
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