I'm not sure I know what you're point of all this is. Sure I can tell the
difference in "live" music and what's recorded, but both are being received
by our ears from speakers of one kind or another, whether it's a live
performance, or recorded; unless, of course, we're talking about all acoustic
instruments, which, I believe, we're not.
The "aura" of a live performance can be attributed, IMO to the spontaneity of
the performance as well as the tiny differences our ears pick up in the music
and vocals as compared to the CD or the song we hear every day on the radio.
I too, heard The Turtles in concert, "only" about 8 or 9 years ago, and the
sound was only so-so, but their performance had so much energy and comedy,
and effort in it, that we got caught up in the "total" performance, and left
the concert happy. We also forget that for some of these acts the live
concert may happen 20 or 30 years after the songs were first recorded, no one
is going to sound the same. Not many performers can faithfully re-create
their studio tracks in a live performance, there's just too much effort going
into recorded music, sometimes weeks or months of effort to get a single song
recorded.
George S.
tristanjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> That's not what I said at all. It should be clear we speak to the "aura" of
> live music as opposed to that which we hear through speakers or earphones,
> whatever. Can't _you_ tell the difference? Isn't it more "alive" when you
> hear it live? If not then I'd have to assume you're hearing is shot or
> you're tone deaf. There _is_ a difference, this is _not_ one of those
> "everything's relative" deals some people seem to think they "learned" back
> in the sixties. Your sound system just like everyone else's produces lots
> of distortion, more than what you'd hear live and for the simple reason
> canned music is farther down the old transduction line. More transduction
> equates into more distortion, other things being equal.
>
> Now whether or not you happen to believe canned music is "better" is
> another question. Sometimes it is at that For instance in the mid seventies
> I listened to The Turtles (remember those guys?) perform outdoors at
> Sawdust Daze in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the middle of Menominee Park. They
> sounded terrible. That would be an instance where canned music to my ears
> was "better," where other things are _not_ equal and so on.
>
> Tris
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