I don't think JJR is dry sounding and I agree with Lagonda that it is a good recording...especially for a "pop" recording.
Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?
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Do you mean for pop recordings? With good jazz recordings drums sound fine with digital...In my system i can always hear the difference on drums, analog recorded drums mostly have a "rightness" to them, most digital recorded drums have a little drum machine sound to them.
Another random album - female vocals - with well recorded vocals, not drowned out in the mix. No LP version of this one.
P.S. it's on Qobuz if you want to listen to it.
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For most recordings, don't forget i don't have a all tube system to make it all sound nice
It's not bad sounding, just a hint, that disappears the moment a well recorded all analog recording is put on the TT.
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Joshua, Judges, Ruth......a Lyle Lovett album.
Thank you. But I have been talking only about the not dry point.If the vinyl played back on your system transforms the experience of that recording, more power to you
Well, it's much closer mic'ed. Is that what you mean by good recording? Close miking?
Ah, thank you.
Compared to the best analog vocals, I find it slightly -- but noticeably -- dry.
The Nat Cole recording does emphasize his voice, as it should.There are many good vocal recordings with a different balance. I still don't understand what "dry" means (other perhaps than being non-reverberant, but that really depends on the recording technique - nothing to do with digital vs analog), but it really does not matter. I'll move on to other topics...
What is a 'Wet" Sound versus a "Dry Sound? - FrontierSoundFX
In audio mixing, we use the term "wet" sound vs "dry" sound to reference the amount effects applied to a sound source.
www.frontiersoundfx.com
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Lovett's vocals are naturally on the lean 'nasal' side anyway, most other male vocalist's have a more full 'chesty' type sound. so it might be as much a matter of liking that voice or not, as much as the source recording format influence.
my perception is that that recording itself is slightly 'lean' and 'spare' so when combined with Lovett's voice equals that semi-dryness. again, not so much a matter of being digital. and most of Lovett's recordings tend to be minimalist and lean sounding. his style. evidently he had enough going for him that Julia Roberts did marry him back in the day at her peak of popularity (she was 25 in 1993).
What is a 'Wet" Sound versus a "Dry Sound? - FrontierSoundFX
In audio mixing, we use the term "wet" sound vs "dry" sound to reference the amount effects applied to a sound source.www.frontiersoundfx.com
Hmmm. I don't really think of my "dry" thing as more or less reverberation.
Fair enough!
I cannot be sure of attribution. All I know is that compared to my favorite analog recordings of vocals I am hearing something slightly dry.
I have always attributed the dry sound of digital to its flat 2 dimensional "sounds like mechanically reproduced" sonic signature.
Elliot G.
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Try Live in Texas a really good album
Elliot G.
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You might want to try Willie Nelson he has a load of great sounding recordings and IMO great music as well. Teatro and For the Girls as a starterAs someone who comes from a part of the US where such music is popular...I can honestly say I can leave nearly all of it for you
As someone who comes from a part of the US where such music is popular...I can honestly say I can leave nearly all of it for you
A number of years ago I told my since dear departed wife if she was going to listen to country to do so when I wasn't home, or I'd toss the equipment out the window.
I will say that about rap every time, but never the music of my kinfolk.
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