| Subjective
Hearing is subjective. The brain has a huge role to play in the process.
Many people have an adverse reaction to small dead rooms, it may be a phobia.
Some of us that actively listen in such small dead spaces, with a result in mind, i.e. the mix translating to the outside world, find the tool extremely effective.
Further more we like and enjoy what we hear in there. Andreas and I are not the only ones who find this. See below reference to survey.
John, I don't think your test would be easy to do or evaluate, but I very much believe in tests, other than simplistic frequency or modal ones.
How about this.
Ethan has a room, treated with lots of diffusion. It has very spectacular graphs and I think we can agree, it is the live thing done very very well. I have a very dead room, horrible graphs, RT or other decays inconsistent or too low to measure, but a survey of 6 recording engineers has scored it very highly. (That was part of the design process)
Ethan has a DPA 4061, maybe can borrow another? I have two.
We could make very similar binaural recordings of playback of one song, Bird on a Wire by Jennifer perhaps?
Then without the bias of lighting, assumptions, ownership, and all the other psycho traps, we can all listen on headphones and 'be there'.
DD |