--- Roger Smith <roger@c...> wrote:
> look, we can be pedantic about it, but taping
> yourself on a
> crappy tape player is a pretty good indication: if
> you sound
> resonable like that, you can be pretty sure you're
> sounding
> alright in real life. Sure, nothing is prefect, but
> a tape
> player will pick up the fundamentals of it all
> enough for
> you to gauge it. Be warned, if you've never heard
> yourself
> recorded, it can be a big shock, or if you're lucky,
> a
> present surprise.
>
> Rodge
I definitively don't agree on this. Make a recording
(to avoid psychological and proximity effect
compensating biassing: not of your own voice) on a
crappy taperecorder and at the same time a good
recording, using a DAT, good MD e.g. and good
microphones and listen to those recordings on a very
good equipment: the difference will be like night and
day. If you don't hear a big difference, than either
you have listened so often to tapes that you have
found a way to 'listen through them' (in fact
imagining the sound based on what you hear) or there
is something wrong with your ears, but most likely
with your loudspeakers etc.
One example: most cheap taperecorders automatically
adjust the record level when the sound becomes too
loud; that means that the difference between f (maybe
even mf)and ff is gone, or at least much smaller than
in reality. Most high notes will be strongly distorted
by a cheap taperecorder anyway.
One good thing: if you sound reasonable on tape, you
probably will sound much better in reality.
Chears,
Dre de Man
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