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Re: The right tone for French music

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2020-07-23 23:55

Hey Ruben,

I assume that you have heard many examples of the Old School French sound in person but I have to ask.........did you hear them live?

I ask because through the recorded medium I had a similar impression of Stanley Drucker's sound (definitely not French School). However, when I heard him live, his sound was huge and as "Mid-Western" (Clark Brody, Larry Combs, Robert Marcellus) as it could possibly be.

I have, and still remain quite puzzled by this phenomenon. I am definitely not the only one to have the "thin/bright" assessment of Drucker's recorded sound. Some listeners to his recording insist he uses a vibrato and yet Stanley Drucker himself insists that he never has.

This is of particular interest to me now as a nascent recording engineer, since it seems probable that there is some quality generated by Drucker (and other of this particular "school" here in the States anyway) that causes this effect with microphones. So I further wonder if this was happening similarly amongst the earlier players in France.

..................Paul Aviles

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