If YouTube recordings sound good, why do commercial digital releases sound so bad.

Here's Michael Fremer recording snippets of Joe Lovano practicing at a recording session (starts 12.00)


And towards the bottom of this article you can hear the studio recording.


The studio recording is much better than the excerpts filmed by Fremer! At around 12:30, we can hear Lovano's saxophone filmed by Fremer in the studio. The sound quality is not good. Low resolution, no texture. How anyone could think this is better than what comes out of the high quality microphones he is standing in front of, and mixed in to a recording, is beyond me. It is also insulting to every recording engineer.
 

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