tubes aren't accurate but memorable musical and delicious. the point is to enjoy the music.
accruacy
the midtones could change darmaticall or sublte. if male vocals start soundig simlar or fmela esound closer, then the variations are lost. and those are qualities i listen for. if beyonace and tonix braxton, and nicki minaj, tamia, diana krall start losing their unique essence, it's a bad component. the tradeoff is common for body/fullness.
i was just at axpona and one designer asked what i thought of their gear. i said the tone wasn't natural but it sounded precise. he made the point that we don't know what the actual color was.
snoop dogg bake me a cupcake
you have audiophiles who only understand audiophiles
doctors are in the back - there's an understanding of what works and what does
you could tell a medical biller these codes are best but she's the one entering them and checking payouts
personality and empathy
reviewesr systme is always in flux - it's never their ideal
as a trained listner, you could take one familiar track and quickly assess it. it's possible.
essence - watcfh a video , everything you are skylar grey
even if there's a pair of ears you trust, if they have different atstes, you'll be misuigded
don't just watch one - but two
You start to get what essence is. the consistent character and warmth in their voice.
there's no reference level in the recording, 1k tone at 78db
moving target - mixed - even if i were to bring the aritsts over to decided themselves
there's not perfect wine for everyone, perfect watch, purse, perfect steak?
which means that while we may not have an answer to a philosophical question of individual color experience, we do have a way of scientifically determining that my red is the same as your red.
s10 vs pro camera
https://www.mysterybox.us/blog/2017/9/7/display-calibration-color-management
skin tones
depths of nuance
ppl choose what they want to explore - does water in coffee matters? yeah
piano, voices, guitar = you know right away if they sound real or not
lens flare, anamorphic lens, unique perspective, take, cinematic affect, taste.
pixel peepers and sharpness in the corners
overexposrue could be a choice for styliastic
duirector of a film will grade the film, change colors arround, add saturaiton...but that has to be preserved.
look or feel angry
color correction and grade it
experienced trained listeneres but also listeners of the world of music
spends the time of listening to music
a colored ball to explain
- solidty
- color
- transparency
- imagine a solid ball - it present a vocal or a instrument, how the bal bounces.
- resoannces
some people like colorless music
https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/sound2.html
semiconductor engineers arenot specialized audio engineers who understand music playback intimately.
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hallmarks of live music
planted decisively
what makes it sound natural or like you're there?
Whenever I say that a recorded voice or musical instrument sounds real, I mean that the reproduction of it that I'm experiencing is so graphic and information-packed that my critical perceptions of "detail" are being subtly converted to perceptions of corporeality and presence—of a person, a place, or an instrument. This is a very good thing, because the word detailed cannot be applied to real life, only to photographs, sound recordings, and instructions.
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chef taste different salts
you weren't there, you don't know. but you do know how an coustic guitar sounds like a paino a voice and if your playlist of those type of instrumenst all sound off, it's off. from different studios.
acrruacy doesn't mean you'll lke it more
we know it's a violin, but that ditcates whether we blieve it's a violin is it's tone.
masters engineers are subjective
neutral ain't accurate either homie - i don't want a neutral snoop dogg, burn that shit up
realistic
embellishment
timbre purity
fleshed out
first watt amps - flavors
lots of mixers and sound engineers compalinab out clients listening to it on their airpods or laptop
wa33 - not accurate but DAAAAYMA
mix to flat
pertains to real life voices and instruments, nothing syntehsized, if you're watching live
live recordings
auto-tune vs robotic and references
it takes experience
of coures there's a such things as accuracy - it's just that no one's accurate.
not about what sounds good but what doesn't sound bad.
adele 21 #1 of all time - unmasters, proof the the music matters much more. it's about the groove.
no one gives a shit about fidelity
eminem
tapestry carole king - groovy
billboard top 100 of all time
evanescence
just bieber my world 2.0 is above unplugged eric claptopn yo!, the wall pink floyd
justin timbrelake futuresex above dire straights brothers in arms
whitney houston
photo of adele
recording studios came up with a reference point, neverthless
anything that ruins tone, i have to get rid of it
the piano test
the voice test
the hip hop and r&b test
have to listen to all genres, ganster rap, classical
go to more live events
listen first and look at graphs later
what is musical?
remember it's inhernent more art than science.
4+ years listening full time, 8 plus years.
frantically
kevin
some aim for nuetrality, modifiy
likelike, real,
threshold - it just sounds more real
- 4 pillars
- Tone & Timbre
- Resolution
- Texture
- Texture/Contrast/ Gradations
- how reverbs settle into the listening room, weight and control
- tactility
- countring
- shape
- articualtion
- smoothness
no i2s converters on hand
it's what's happen around the performers
tradeoffs
artistic intent
accuracy
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whether a real piano sounds like that doesn't matter, it's what they grew up with
in los angeles, we're spoiled, i get live music everywhere i go
making love to the hottest girl in school to the harshes music, that may actually sing to you
fun audience - acurracy isn't musical
alexia series 2 where the performance
there is something absolute about how a stick brusehs a drum or the texture and tacitlity of a strum of guitar
unflappable