On 17 Oct 2004 20:41:23 GMT, ohawker (Andy
Evans) wrote:

you've wasted your time. The decision as
to whether what comes out of your Hi Fi has been made long before any piece of
media reaches your hands

Hello Don - yes, I expected this observation which is largely but not entirely
correct. Yes, of course, volume and placement of instruments (at least..) are
choices of the producer. But the microphones still pick up the sounds of the
instruments and the voices - the producer has to be remarkably ham fisted to
ruin that (not that it can't be done). So yes, we have to make the best of
this, but no - maximising one's hifi is never a waste of time. Why else would
we read these pages? (I'm tempted to say - "to find a convenient argument to
take part in"...)

=== Andy Evans ===
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Unfortunately there is a world of difference between "sounds live" and
"sounds nice". For a start, you need to record anechoically for a live
sound, and there isn't a producer alive who would do that apart from
as an experiment.

d
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com