Klarinet Archive - Posting 000444.txt from 2002/10

From: b3w@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: [kl] Reverberations in a church
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:47:10 -0400

I doubt that I'll ever record anything myself, except to leave my tape
recorder running during a recital, but I am curious how a CD can manage
to sound like a studio recording even though it was recorded in an
echo-filled church?

I've been told that Trinity Church is, in fact, very echo-filled, and
yet Steven's CD has no trace of reverberations --- at least, I don't
think it does, perhaps I don't know what to listen for --- and I'm
wondering why not? Is there such a thing as a "reverberation filtering
circuit"? It's hard to understand how microphone placement can "lose"
reverberations without also losing some of the music?

Thank you,
Bill

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