Posted by Anonymous 4 on March 15, 2006, 19:20:47, in reply to "Re: siegfried 1955 short review" No offense meant, but you really can't say that without knowing the details of all of the steps in recording _and_ the precise interplay between acoustics and microphones. More importantly, dj mentioned an overpresence of low frequencies and a relative lack of middle and high. This has literally _nothing_ to do with the way a conductor conducts. And I mean really, completely and utterly nothing at all ! :-) Instruments are instruments and each instruments has a certain frequency range. Of course the spectrum of each instrument (meaning average and spread of the frequency spectrum) changes a bit over time and with different 'builds' of instruments, but this is something you perceive rather as allover "feel" than as 'darkness' or 'lightness' or 'brilliance'. Every orchestra in all time periods has always had low middle and high frequencies (esp. overtones are lying there) and there is no way, physically, for an orchestra to produce a sound that lacks middle and high. This supports my point that it has everything to do with microphone quality, recording and micing technique, and certainly also equalization. In particular, it's rather easy to suppress hiss by attenuating high and upper middle frequencies, but onfortunately you also remove frequencies where there's music, which often accounts for this 'dark sound'. However, I do not know this particular remastering, so I'm just giving this as an example. This is not to say that you can't perceive a 'dark' expression, but this is a highly subjective thing, and it is physcially also very much undefined. Most of all, it has nothing to do with the darkness dj mentioned. Here endeth the audio engineering lesson :-D
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"It's my feeling that the dark sound you describe, could also be attributed to the way maestro Keilberth conducts the orchestra, that's to say with dark expression, which suits Siegfried very well of course."
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