Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:09:44 +0200, "Iain Churches"
wrote:

I am glad that you regard the classical market as quality,
Andy. When I go to a classical mastering session, I can
reckon to be in and out in a couple of hours. For a pop
session one needs to take a sleeping bag:-)


Perhaps because you simply have to *record* a classical orchestra?
With pop, you have to transform what they do into something vaguely
reminiscent of music - noise gates, compresors, limiters, pitch
shifters, multiple track/take splicing etc etc etc. :-(

But Iain has written many times recently that he doesn't just record
the sound of a classical performance. He's an artist and chooses his
microphones carefully to give the most musical frequency response and
distortion. The result is even better than the real thing.

Someone who just wanted to accurately record an orchestra wouldn't have written:
...and just a touch of reverb to bring it to perfection.

--
Eiron

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent - Tom Stoppard.