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A1: I think the major change in recording technology was the step from one-point-recordings to all kind of mic-arrays and closely miking enhanced by mics capturing the room reverbs. Mixing all together results in strange phase effects and requires an additional artist: the mixing engineer. Before the recording engineer’s major task was to find the best setup grouping the musicians around the single microphone. A most time consuming job seeing the complexity of room acoustics.
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A2: If saying a lot of their stuff is mediocre but I like some of it is going ballistic than I guess I went ballistic voicing my opinion. I have the right to like what I like without someone telling me I shouldn’t like it. As far as Trump I probably shouldn’t care about what an uniformed foreigner who cannot vote thinks of any of our politicians, but I do care when they threaten ones life. I was talking to Secretguy but once again you inject yourself into my conversation with someone else. I rather trust a businessman than a lifetime politician taking bribe money to eff over my country. Most politicians suck. Have a good day snowflake. 🙂
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A3: To me, as a classical music listener, by far the biggest change in recordings is producers’ response to so many younger people listening through earbuds, rather than speakers. The best recordings of the sixties, like those of today, captured a soundstage, enabling the listener with a well set-up system to hear and to visualize the placement of the musicians in a space. Mixes of popular music intended for earbud listening sound like the music is being sprayed into the air as a sort of mist – every voice and instrument is both everywhere, and nowhere in particular.
The difference in mixing is orders of magnitude more noticeable than advances in audio technology in my lifetime.
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