Ethan Winer
Acoustics Expert
Zip,
> It was in a studio and I believe it was the same performance. I didn't conduct the test so I'm not positive. <
Last year a friend of mine was telling me how he heard a test that proved to him that 96 KHz. is better than 48 or 44.1. I asked him about the test, and he said a singer sang into a mike and it was recorded at 44.1 or 48 (I forget which). Then the singer sang again and it was recorded at 96 KHz. This fellow is a pro, so it was easy for me to explain to him that every performance is different, and if the singer has just a hint more sibilance or faces the mike differently by 3 degrees the sound will change.
Last night I heard a microphone shootout and a fellow played the same tune on an acoustic guitar a bunch of times while they switched mikes and recorded each performance. Now, this fellow was not a very good guitar player, but even a really good player can't play exactly the same several times in a row. If you strum four inches from the bridge one time and 4-1/2 inches away the second, the tone will change a lot.
Variables like these are what invalidate most of the "tests" I've heard of.
--Ethan
> It was in a studio and I believe it was the same performance. I didn't conduct the test so I'm not positive. <
Last year a friend of mine was telling me how he heard a test that proved to him that 96 KHz. is better than 48 or 44.1. I asked him about the test, and he said a singer sang into a mike and it was recorded at 44.1 or 48 (I forget which). Then the singer sang again and it was recorded at 96 KHz. This fellow is a pro, so it was easy for me to explain to him that every performance is different, and if the singer has just a hint more sibilance or faces the mike differently by 3 degrees the sound will change.
Last night I heard a microphone shootout and a fellow played the same tune on an acoustic guitar a bunch of times while they switched mikes and recorded each performance. Now, this fellow was not a very good guitar player, but even a really good player can't play exactly the same several times in a row. If you strum four inches from the bridge one time and 4-1/2 inches away the second, the tone will change a lot.
Variables like these are what invalidate most of the "tests" I've heard of.
--Ethan