"Andy Evans" wrote in message
...
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 ===


Hello Andy.

You are confusing the realms of responsibility here. The volumes and
placement
of the instruments (both physically in the studio, and in the recorded
soundstage)
are the responsibility of the engineer, not the producer.

I have been a professional recording engineer for thirty years.
Iain