On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 00:20 +0200, Julien Claassen wrote: > I'm not too bothered by tunings at all, since I don't have absolute hearing. I'm far away of having absolute hearing. I don't have it too. The funny thing is, that a lot of classical recordings IMO are to muddy, even while the tuning is higher than 440 Hz. I guess the tuning became higher and higher to avoid a muddy sound, IMO a step in the wrong direction, since it became much to high, very audible even when being far away of absolute hearing. I don't listen to classical live music, I very seldom listen to classical recordings, but at least for recordings I would prefer 440 Hz or even lower and adding more brilliance by engineering, instead of tunings > 440 Hz. Again, I'm a child from the 80's, generation x, drop the guitar's e to d (Baroque ;) and give the sound brilliance by using the bridge pick up. Unfortunately violins don't have different pick ups ;). Paradox, since I guess classical music shouldn't be mixed as pop music should be mixed. Hehe, not my problem, since I'm a pop and not a classical musician :). Btw. I like the temperament for guitars by the Boss TU-12H, IIRC Fmit or another Linux tuner is close to my taste too. I guess a piano tuned by those tuners would sound disgusting, but I might be mistaken. But anyway, it's hard to tune without having a reference point, such as a tuning fork. But I guess we are able to recognise the character of a tuning. Btw. without a reference point a guitarist will be able to tune the guitar within +- one half step, regarding to the traction of the strings. We might not be able to hear it, but we feel the traction of the strings. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
