Re: New concert hall

In article <4b0fccd9.5281265@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
spam@xxxxxxxx (Don Pearce) wrote:

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:45:22 -0800, Jenn
<jennconductsREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <4b1db747.525882859@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
spam@xxxxxxxx (Don Pearce) wrote:

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:03:40 -0800, Jenn
<jennconductsREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <4b1ab2af.524706734@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
spam@xxxxxxxx (Don Pearce) wrote:

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:41:08 -0800, Jenn
<jennconductsREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <4b1388c3.513975031@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
spam@xxxxxxxx (Don Pearce) wrote:

On 26 Nov 2009 08:52:56 -0500, kludge@xxxxxxxxx (Scott Dorsey)
wrote:

Kind of. If your goal is to have a room that seats 200 sound like
a
room that seats 5,000, it will do the job admirably. And there are
some cases where that can be beneficial.

You think so? I've visited a couple of these rooms, and I can only
describe the effect as - well, an effect. And like all effects it
very
quickly gets tiresome. I couldn't spend an entire evening in such a
place.

d

Based on the two spaces I've heard (ours and Zellerbach at UC
Berkeley),
I would disagree.

That's fair enough. I guess I envy you that as more of these kind of
venues appear.

d

Lots of folks with world-class ears/experience are agreeing that this is
a real positive breakthrough...Kent Nagano, John Adams, recording folks,
etc. May I ask, which Constellation equipped halls have you heard?

A thought occurs to me. Would anyone actually record an orchestra with
this system turned on? I'm sure there's a chicken and egg problem
there, only I'm not entirely sure how to express it.

d

I'm not highly experienced in recording, but I doubt it. It seems like
that thing to do would be to record in the dry hall and add 'verb to
taste digitally.

Yes, but then you have an orchestra playing in a dry hall, and they
certainly won't play or pace the music as they would if they were
hearing a full hit of reverb. Simply adding reverb later to such a
recording would not produce the required effect. Tricky, isn't it?

d

I see, thanks. Yes, it's tricky. So is making the music! ;-)
.

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