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Classical Recording
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Classical Recording

by Caroline Haigh, John Dunkerley, Mark Rogers
October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
12h 30m
English
Focal Press
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Glossary of recording attributes

Describing aspects of audio with words can be quite tricky, but here goes:

Focus Image stability and concentration in one place. If you shut your eyes, can you locate the instrument very precisely, more generally but in a particular direction, or not at all?

Bloom The important sense of the depth and size of the real space the player is in. The early reflections and the reverb time will convey information about the nature of the room or hall and the space around the player. This translates into a sense of the instrument not being a pinpoint location in the recorded image but having some size and feeling of ‘air’ around it.

Depth This is the perception of distance from the front to the back of the ensemble. ...

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ISBN: 9781000194845