Digital BW, The Print

Austin,

I admit that I am a little guilty of attacking the sound guys musicality or
lack of same but they certainly are capable of changing the original intent
of the musician. Yes, I can hear the difference because my ear is trained.
The timbre of an instrument has a lot to do with the harmonics as does
subtle toning of a print make the difference between photographers. I won't
say who my favorite photographers are but I will say that they are not
necessarily the ones who take the sharpest pictures. This is the usual knock
about Wynton Marsalis. He plays clean and accurately but cold.

I've been playing music for about 50+ years and photographing for about the
same length of time. I like PS a lot and will never go back to a darkroom.
When I'm not lazy and have the juices flowing I can really get in a zone
with a photo or a saxophone. It's a strange feeling.

My apologies if I offended you----some of my best friend have recording
studios.

Barry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 1:23 PM
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: Pumping up the saturation


> Barry,
>
> > Sorry to disagree with you. A CD does not produce a more complete
> > reproduction of live sound.It produces an engineers interpretation of
the
> > sound and the engineer usually doesn't know a thing about music.
>
> Why do you say that?  Most of the digital audio engineers I know are VERY
> into music, in fact, and know quite a bit about it.  And, why would that
be
> any different than analog audio engineers?  I'd even say that digital
audio
> engineers can be more into music than most anyone, as I've had to
understand
> quite a lot about the actual signal that's produced in order to design the
> electronics, and write the DSP code to process it.  It was far more
> difficult and required far more understanding than any analog audio design
I
> ever did, not that I really did much analog audio design, except for input
> and output stages.
>
> > There are
> > harmonics lost in digital reproductions.
>
> Absolutely correct, but that takes more than a recording to reproduce such
> subtlety that it actually effects the audibility of the music, as well as
> environmental conditions.  Also, it usually takes a trained ear to even
hear
> the difference.
>
> Regards,
>
> Austin
>
>
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