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Author: Rick2
Date: 1999-03-25 03:56
I received this CD yesterday and have to disagree with the assessment that several people made about Benny Goodman sounding bright. I listened to the Rondo: Allegro of K622 with headphones several times and everything on the entire CD at least once. My assessment is that Benny Goodman sounds just fine, but the recording equipment makes it sound bright. This is a very very early live stereo recording. I think if it were recorded with today's equipment, it would sound much darker. That old equipment didn't have great bandwidth.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 1999-03-25 05:54
1)Every good recordings before digital tape was invented is by Ampex 27 channel tape,I believe.It is very good.
2)Today,the recording is made using digital tape recording system.At first parent CDs will be made with 16 bit recordings.These CDs will be distributed to each country as the master.Each country manufactures children or sometimes grand-children CDs.Of course parent CDs are quite better sound than children or grand-children CDs.
3)Some manufactures issue 20 bit sound-mapped CDs.These CDs have 32 times info than that of 16 bit CDs.
4)30cm records have much better sounds(or much larger info)than those carried by CDs only if we have good record player like Machintosh and Speeker.
5)There are a few CD manufacturers in NY area, who sell only parent CDs(expensive).They borrow master tape from Recording companies paying money and make those CDs.Sounds are far better than ordinary ones.
Yes dark tones mean very much harmonics.If bad recording technique is applied,these harmonics will dissapear(I guess).
If you are interested digital audio/hifi technique,please take a glance at this very technical page:
http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/audio.html
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Author: brian
Date: 1999-03-25 20:32
just my opinion:
I just think it sounds a little unfocused and edgy, not what a clarinet should sound like when playing Mozart.
Sure, he's great technically but I don't think he sounds good playing classical stuff. It sounds kind of saxaphone-like at times.
I think that even were his sound a little brighter, it could still be focused and clear.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 1999-03-26 04:00
Just a few word.CDs are made cutting higher frequencies above 25000-30000Hz.We cannot hear these frequencies but I believe these sounds surely contribute to the quality of sounds.I heard from my friend this cutting is necessitated by digitalization(like 0101010101...).It cannot cover all ranges since the signals doubled.
So,Rick,unlike ordinary understanding CDs have narrower range than analogue recordings!
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Author: Rick2
Date: 1999-03-26 15:10
No, no, no, I can't disagree with that more having done some DSP work in graduate school.
1) CD's are produced with what is known as oversampling to frequencies much higher than what the human ear can hear. This is to prevent what is known as aliasing, or confusing two harmonics for the same sound. The oversampling forces the aliasing up into the region we can't hear. It has nothing to do with high frequency signals contributing to the sound you hear.
2) Analog recordings may be able to capture the high frequency sounds, but they will be buried in tape hiss and other high frequency noise. This noise can be eliminated from an analog recording by using DIGITAL signal processing techniques, but it is always there no matter what analog recording method is used.
3) A CD is far superior to analog tape or vinyl for accurately reproducing the dynamics of a piece from ppp to fff. The analog sources are simply unable to have that much dynamic resolution.
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