Audix wrote:
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.



Of course - understood perfectly.



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


Isn't everybody in this group?

:-)



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.



OK - good of you to have made the effort!


Thank you for you response and very interesting comments - I prefer the
'original' myself so that's two of us, but even my partner who played
the clarinet thought Arny's suggested version was interesting and said
it made the instruments a little more realistic in one or two places!! (??)

Personally, I thought it was a little 'tizzy' but, either way, it's a
pity he had to try and make it yet another of his obnoxious/bombastic
but utterly futile attempts to get the better of Iain!!

;-)