Posted by Terry Koehn on October 07, 2002 at 15:48:51:
In Reply to: I disagree. posted by Lew on October 07, 2002 at 10:13:47:
Ambience of the Room Recorded ?...
Ambience of your Room?...
Ambience of your Room + The Recorded Room Ambiance Together ?...
All points of Personal Taste...
If you play your recordings in a Cathedral with Wonderful Full Reverberation...All your recordings will have that Wonderful Full Cathedral Ambience included...That is unless you sit almost directly next to your speakers ! There by increasing Direct Sound / To Room Sound Ratio ?
If you choose Headphones..You get no listening room sound added..Only the original ambiance selected by the recording engineer..And Ear Cramps....
ESL Panel Speakers must by design, present Polar Eight Sound Radiation .
The front Rendering, Direct Sound & the Back Wave may be Absorbed. Or bounced, by Varying Quality & Levels of Reflection added to the Front Direct Sound...
If you decide to hear the Back Wave Sound Radiation, then you have choices of how you are going to bend or bounce that back wave, back to you...?.
My last choice would be Sheet Rock,but that is the substance most often heard..
If you choose 100% reflection use: Glass / Marble...[Wet Glass for Live Echo Chambers]
If you choose Poor Top End Octave & Muddy Midrange..Reflections Pick: Sheet Rock .
And you also get 100 % bass reflection with Sheet Rock....
If you want to dampen Top End & Midrange Octaves : Fiberglass or Quilts..Thick Velvet Curtains.
If you want to absorb below 150hz you will need a large expensive Bass Traps or Large Box like furniture. [book cases]..Reefs that brake up big ocean waves.....
Dr.West at one point has made Spherical ESL Speakers...And he never told me what he did with the back wave ? But logic dictates that it ended up in fiberglass & heat...
Dr.West addressed all of this,when he presented SALLIE ! Not the be all, to end all ,but a convent and cost effective way of reducing back waves to palatable levels !
Bottom Line ? How much of your Room Reflected Sound do you want to add to your Recordings ?
If there was The Perfect Speaker?..All recordings will feel underwhelming,because of OVER MIX TRYING TO COMPENSATE FOR POOR ROOMS AND POOR SPEAKERS..