On 04/07/2010 12:26 AM, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:50:24PM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > >> sure you can stubbornly aim at a flat spectrum while mixing. some >> legendary recordings have been made like that. donald fagen, the >> nightfly, anyone? > > ??? NO WAY. > > I've just been running some tracks (IGY, Ruby baby, Maxine, > New frontier, Walk between the raindrops) through Japa and > they don't look 'flat' at all. well, not in the literal sense - how could it? but in the sense that there is constant action in every major frequency band pretty much all the time, which is why it's so quick to equalise a p.a. system with it. no need to loop or skip. i'm pretty sure that was what fagen was aiming at - to produce dense music that stays transparent yet has a very wide spectrum, constantly. and i wouldn't put it past him to check on the analyser where there's some space left for yet another sound layer or part ;) >> sure, it means nobody in their right minds will listen to your album >> outside of a p.a. soundcheck, but hey, that's one approach to >> immortality... (i still use that track when no one's looking) > > Or listening. It's one of my favourites, it really is? well, maybe i've worn it out at work. i find it a little to perfect for recreational listening. > along with 'Heavy Weather' > (Weather Report) hey ho! that's more like it :) i need to dig out that LP i have... but my personal preference is "mysterious traveller". > and Joni Mitchell's 'The hissing of summer lawns'. don't know that one, but i really need to get a few more of joni's albums - all i have is "mingus" which is brilliant but only digestible for mingus and joni lovers, and a greatest hits album which has woodstock, both sides now, circle game, free man in paris and yellow taxi on it :) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
