[LAU] Pro Audio? OT rant.

[Al Thompson]

On 01/01/2013 02:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> The way our ears work, what frequency we actually hear shifts slightly
>>> with intensity.  There is a great book on acoustics by F. Alton
>>> Everest that goes into this a bit in one of the earlier chapters.  I
>>> am still reading through all of it, but it is an interesting
>>> phenomenon.  Pitch is in actuality a subjective form of Frequency, not
>>> objective, and this is reflected in this phenomenon.
>> This is something you learn VERY early on if you mix monitors for a
>> living.  If you've got someone who sings consistently flat (especially
>> lead singers), turn their monitor DOWN about 3-4 dB, no matter how much
>> they scream and yell about it.
>>
>> The audience will thank you profusely.
> Humm, I wonder if this is why much of Johnny Cash's work has him 25 to 50 
> cents flat.  He was back on key for a while after the tonsillectomy.
>
> Cheers, Gene

Well, some people just sing flat.  (Bob Dylan comes to mind).  No amount
of monitor magic will fix tone-deafness.


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