Why the recordings vary tremendously in sonic quality?
Let see what some recordists say about their art.( I’ll allow myself some remarks (in bold italic). ….”Although achieving a “good” sound is on the engineering mind, the recording session is not the optimum environment for discerning differences and spend time (read “money”) on what are considered matters of secondary importance. Recording engineers in a session don’t have the luxury of sitting in a chairs with nothing to think about other, than the sound they are hearing. Further the differences between cables, mike preamps, and other electronics are often more subtle than and of a different nature from the large differences introduced by changing or moving microphones. The first-order effects of tonal-balance differences between microphones tend to overshadow the second-order effects of cables and electronics. Finally, it is not the engineers prerogative to stop the session to experiment with tweaky techniques or components”…. ….
Let see what some recordists say about their art.( I’ll allow myself some remarks in bold italic). ….”Although achieving a “good” sound is on the engineering mind, the recording session is not the optimum environment for discerning differences and spend time (read “money”) on what are considered matters of secondary importance. Recording engineers in a session don’t have the luxury of sitting in a chairs with nothing to think about other, than the sound they are hearing. Further the differences between cables, mike preamps, and other electronics are often more subtle than and of a different nature from the large differences introduced by changing or moving microphones. The first-order effects of tonal-balance differences between microphones tend to overshadow the second-order effects of cables and electronics. Finally, it is not the engineers prerogative to stop the session to experiment with tweaky techniques or components”…. ….”It’s very easy for audiophiles to forget that, in
