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Post Subject: Multiple Tracks, Each One Bandwidth-Limited?!?Posted by Paul S on: 9/7/2009
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OK, this has to be another problem caused by the bad electricity, right?

I was comparing two "Eroicas" when it struck me that one was especially weird in terms of "engineering".

The weird one is a DGG, circa 1972, Bohm conducting the VPO.

The weirdness is not that multiple tracks are used and are audible as such, since this is, after all, quite common. Likewise, it is all too common to limit different bands differently with respect to volume, if only to ensure audibility of delicate passages and prevent overload, apropos, with some presumption on the recording engineer's part as to just where the critical overload point or points might be.

In the case of this DGG, the weirdness is that each of the multiple tracks seems to be bandwidth-limited, as though the engineer has decided to "optimize" each track according to his own perception of a particular instrument or section's pitch, tone, or whatever.  But, of course, it just kills timbre, interplay and dynamics and pretty well drains the music of its Sound base.

This did not dawn on me immediately.  My initial reaction was merely that something generic was missing from the Sound that was preventing the Music.  I thought at first that sections sounded oddly "congested".  But as soon as I homed in on the problem the nature of the beast was all too apparent.

This is the first time I have isolated this particular problem.

Anyone else ever run accross it?


Paul S

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