Re:Blind-tested soloists unable to tell Stradivarius from mo...
by daveguy on Thursday July 14, 2016 @06:31PM
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Very interesting! Thank you for the detailed reply. I have always wondered about the detail that went into soundcheck. Sound often seems too loud in a bar venue. I don't know if that's where you are more likely to have an amateur sound tech or it is just difficult to get a loud enough sound in a small space. Or maybe I'm just a little baby when it comes to sound.
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Re:Blind-tested soloists unable to tell Stradivarius from mo...
by jarmitage on Thursday July 14, 2016 @06:54PM
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To get a good sound, or particularly a good loudness, in a small place is a lot to do with the proportionality of the speaker power output relative to the room size. You can have huge speakers sound awful in a small room and vice versa.
Levelling the playing field in 'amateur sound tech' (mostly good craftspeople who are just doing what they can with limited time/resources) is an active area of research in acoustics and DSP. I recommend Dr Josh Reiss of QMUL (where I'm based) for more on this. Check out his work on automatic audio engineering. Machine learning is very appropriate to this area of work:
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=fVlS_EgAAA...