Charles Angelich wrote
 
----------exploding CDs
 
> Unfortunately the hardware available not long ago
> wasn't always up to the task at hand and methods
> weren't as well developed as they are now.
> Professional level sound recording is very much a
> science now that I would put into the category of
> engineering and not just a technician.
 
 Yah, I got just an inkling of the complexity
 by looking at some more recent articles on the
 subject. Before I gave up reading -- the
 terminology alone is murderous [g]
 
 But I have to say that the results, whatever is
 done before the CDs are re-issued, are outstanding.
 
> To bring some of the old vinyl up to modern
> standards they would have to add what was missed
> in the original. The results would be a hybrid of
> the original plus new sound added to fill in what
> was missed. Nothing wrong with that but at times I
> do wish the original sound technicians had been
> sound engineers with better hardware to work with.
 
> The recent use of psycho-accoustics to use
> harmonic distortion to generate additional sound
> is really quite amazing. The THX sounds of "Two
> Towers" in a good movie theater is just beyond
> description.
 
> You believe that you are really _there_ within the
> movie itself. Very nice.
 
 I believe, I believe! But I don't know about nice.
 One experience with that was taking a couple of my
 godkids to a movie rigged up with some such
 system, then falling asleep, and then coming awake
 real fast and I think rising more than a few feet
 in the air with what must have been a very
 startled look on my face when the sound level of
 the film shot up for some exciting bit. Pretty
 close to a heart attack, I thought at the time.
 And was I ever pissed off about the theater not
 warning patrons about the loudspeakers they put
 under the seats. [g]
 
 
----------MIDI
 
 Charles Angelich wrote
 
> I had a MIDI online at my music page that is a
> very accurate reproduction of Benny Goodman's
> "Sing Sing Sing". I listened to the original
> recording and it's amazing how close the two are
> (even the Gene Krupa drum solos in it). The MIDI
> recording is much cleaner, the original real
> recording was made when microphones weren't very
> responsive.
 
 How or where do you get a MIDI reproduction of
 Benny Goodman's "Sing Sing Sing". Are MIDI
 reproductions available commercially or do you
 yourself somehow transform the original into MIDI?
 I've listened to some MIDI music, tapped some out
 on Windows and someone's professinal Casio piano,
 but I'm completely unfamilair with the technical
 aspects of the subject.
 
> Many professional musicians are using MIDI synth
> in place of real musicians now and musicians
> aren't happy about it at all.
 
 I guess not, it putting them out of a job.
 
 

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