Re: New concert hall

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.
.

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