[LAU] Off-topic: "A look at how the Behringer Model D compares with the Minimoog"

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:40:28AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:

> An acoustic instrument interacts with the space you hear it in in ways that
> no stereo playback with common point sources is ever going to capture.

Indeed. And where that matters, it is the sound engineeer's job
to try and capture at least some of that magic, even if can't be
reproduced correctly.

> An electrical instrument, whether analog like the Moog Model D  or digital
> like Pianoteq can't do this: it never generates ANY sound at all except via
> some amplified speaker system. So it is entirely reasonable to think that
> you will always hear the same thing when you play a recording (analog or
> digital) of the instrument over the same playback system that you first
> heard it on. 

There is even no way to tell how it should sound, except when the
original amp / speaker system is considered part of the instrument.

Ciao,

-- 
FA