Klarinet Archive - Posting 000559.txt from 2005/03

From: ormo2ndtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] that nice dark sound
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:47:37 -0500

Joseph=A0Wakeling wrote:

> Well, the natural thing to do would be:
> Experiment with different sorts of sounds
> that you can control (e.g. by using the
> balance settings on a hi-fi)

Joe, you have raised (indirectly) the same question that I asked a week
or so ago. I am hoping that someone who knows the technical details
will post an answer.

What sort of control does a recording engineer have over the sound that
is placed on the media (as opposed to how the listener chooses to adjust
his player)?

For example, does adjusting the recording equipment's treble (while
recording an instrument with its own mic) cause an identical effect on
the 'ratio of partials' for each note regardless of the note's position
in the scale? Or does adjusting the treble merely alter the strength
of all wave peaks above a certain threshold regardless of each note's
fundamental frequency?

(The latter seems more likely to me.)

Example: low E will lose fairly little of its higher partials because
fewer of its partials are above the threshold to which the treble is
set, whereas an altissimo note will lose a much larger chunk of its
upper partials because even the 2nd partial is close to or above the
threshold.

For that matter, does recording equipment even have a 'treble'
adjustment similar to the adjustment on a player?

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