Monday, 30 November 2009

Sound systems

To enjoy music it needs to sound well, if the instruments are tuned well live performance is fine at the camp fire, but if we go large in a concert hall or even on air on the radio we need something more. The public-address system, is the key to succes, a system that allows sounds to sound natural or as if we wish them to sound, but never to go on their own way, cause that would lead to chaos.
The 1st device was the fonograph that served this function and later on with the technical developments the first studio's bacame the places of sound editing.
From the moment we could influence, edit and make better sounds special effects, a new way of creation and controll over music was born.
In the 1960's and 1970's also use of studios emerged widley among pop singers. Each song they wrote and played however still reimain unique and with even the top studios of today we barely can reproduce them, because the shabby instruments and the '3beers and 1pocket of cigaretts' lifestyle during the records can be never the same.
Thus, any song we play from the past and sounds differently, no matter how developped technologies we have will remain not the same. This probably will apply to future technologies, where better sound systems will be made and the same old sounding will never be the same as the old good sounds of the original equipment and artist of the age.

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