"Audix" wrote in message

On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:01:02 +0000, Keith G
wrote:

Anyway, here's the original again:

http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/showntell/GeorgiaM.mp3


And here's Arny's suggestion (EQ is not *my* work):

http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/showntell/GeorgiaMEQ.mp3


So, it's a simple case of 'better or worse?'...??

What does the team think?


The original is definitely not mellow. The composite
nature is revealed however. Clarinet sounds roughly as
one would expect but the saxophone is rather too breathy
(on axis?) for my taste. This latter may be due to
microphone positioning or the characteristic of the mic
itself, with which I'm unfamiliar. The piece comes over
as being put together, rather than existing in a natural
acoustic setting.

The EQ'd version sounds awful to me. Excessive HF lift to
the point that it becomes annoying - completely destroys
the musical cohesiveness and tonality of the piece.

We all hear things differently, so my comments are purely
personal observations.

Who am I? - A retired sound recording engineer
approaching his sixties.

What was I listening on? - Playback from PC using Opticom
(Fraunhofer) mp3 codec. Monitoring via ATC SCM100A
primarily, but also checked via Rogers LS5/8 and Genelec
1031A.

Obviously someone that Iain brought in since no regular was supporting him,
probably a member of that unknown audio group that has excluded me. ;-)
(dev.nul = autobiographical?) has posted here only once
before in the history of Usenet, according to google.