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Re: Liking your own sound

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2014-10-27 23:12

I second the suggestion to go back to the best setup of the ones you've already tried - maybe all the way home to whatever you were using when you "used to really like" your sound. Get re-oriented and let yourself settle back into it. While you're there, decide what it was that really drove you to look for something else. If you can't describe it to yourself, then stay with what you have until you can identify what you're looking for that's different from the sound you're getting.

Wandering around the universe looking for a sound you like is a sure path to confusion. After awhile you'll have lost any moorings you started with.

From what I've read, a hundred years ago (I wasn't there), players didn't obsess over sound as they have since the 1950s or '60s (the heyday of classical recordings - coincidence?). If it sounded like a clarinet, there were more important things to worry about, like phrasing, staccato, rhythm and ensemble, etc...

Karl

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