On 01/02/2013 03:13 AM, Tim E. Real wrote: > On January 1, 2013 07:26:42 PM Al Thompson wrote: >> On 01/01/2013 02:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> The way our ears work, what frequency we actually hear shifts slightly >>> >>>>> with intensity. There is a great book on acoustics by F. Alton >>>>> Everest that goes into this a bit in one of the earlier chapters. I >>>>> am still reading through all of it, but it is an interesting >>>>> phenomenon. Pitch is in actuality a subjective form of Frequency, not >>>>> objective, and this is reflected in this phenomenon. >>>> This is something you learn VERY early on if you mix monitors for a >>>> living. If you've got someone who sings consistently flat (especially >>>> lead singers), turn their monitor DOWN about 3-4 dB, no matter how much >>>> they scream and yell about it. >>>> >>>> The audience will thank you profusely. >>> Humm, I wonder if this is why much of Johnny Cash's work has him 25 to 50 >>> cents flat. He was back on key for a while after the tonsillectomy. >>> >>> Cheers, Gene >> Well, some people just sing flat. (Bob Dylan comes to mind). No amount >> of monitor magic will fix tone-deafness. > Turn on the "Auto-Ruin" ! Can you imagine how immediately forgettable and horrible the classics we all know and love would have been if Auto-Tune had been invented back then? Or how sterile and lifeless all those mixes would have been if they had been "corrected" within an inch of their lives on a DAW, played by MIDI and quantized, had fifty completely unrelated reverbs gracing the various tracks? -- --- My bands, CD projects, music, news, and pictures: http://www.lateralforce.com My blog, with commentary on a variety of things, including audio, mixing, equipment, etc, is at: http://audioandmore.wordpress.com Staat heißt das kälteste aller kalten Ungeheuer. Kalt lügt es auch; und diese Lüge kriecht aus seinem Munde: 'Ich, der Staat, bin das Volk.' - [Friedrich Nietzsche] _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
