On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:19:01AM +0200, Julien Claassen wrote: > I suppose, that tuning hasn't much to do with muddiness at all. I've > heard 440Hz - or there abouts - recordings, which sounded like one piece > of mud and Italian or French baroque tuning (392Hz), which sounded crips > and clear. I'm not even sure it has much to do with mixing. Recording > would be one thing, so you don't cancel frequencies by bad mic > placements. but most of it is in clarity of playing and for baroque music > especially in size of ensemble. I found, the small the better. then of > course you have the venue, which has an impact on the clarity of sound. > An overlarge reverberation can harm a nice orchestra, especially if it's > big. If things sound muddy it's usually one of too much reverb, sloppy playing, or the orchestra/ensemble being too big for the type of music being performed. Tuning has little or nothing to do with it. Many recordings (and not only of renaissance and baroque music) have way too much reverb on them. Just some days ago I heard a recent recording of Beethoven string quartets produced with something halfway between a church and a longish vocal plate reverb - absolutely horrible. This is chamber music... > ... I think one should leave well alone. Mix the mics in a > good way, but don't do much in the way of "producing". I > always thought the working with classical music is the art > of touching the recording in imperceptable ways, that help > what's there. So you don't have a real "production sound". Quite right. But it doesn't have to be 'purist' either. I won't hesitate to use a little EQ or even some gentle compression if it helps, and sometimes it does. But not the amounts that are common for other types of music. You may be surprised that Von Karajan was known for his interfering with the recording technique and forcing his kind of 'production sound'... and not always for the better. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
