Oliver
08-29-2001, 05:24 PM
In a reply to a sound designer Thomas j. Wrote :Btw how do you guys like your fruit? Dry or juicy? I guess I\'d have to say dry, so I can add juice-extract afterwards. Of course we need to have that option when we buy bread too. Dry and mold or hot, fresh and soft? Again I\'d go with the dry one. I like to have the option of eating dry, stale bread.
Poor analogy! Sound in the real world is totally dry until it is affected by the environment. No matter what your method is you are adding \"Juice\" after the fact. Show me a trumpet that blows a reverbed sound out of it\'s bell and you may have a point. Play your dry trumpet sample in a hall and the effect is the same as when you play the real trumpet in the same hall (reverb wise).
Also, when playing a sound that was sampled with reverb, what happens when you stop playing? The reverb stops! That\'s less real than dry oranges any day! Don\'t tell me to adjust the release cause thats a totally different sound.
Hearing the same exact sample over and over is bad enough, let alone with the same exact reverb on it each time. A real hall or a good reverb unit will vary the quality of the reverb, thus giving the sound more life and character than the stagnant verbed samples.
Last point. If you intend on having your music played on TV or radio, be prepared for the reverb flood you will get because of the compression effect (yuck) wet city! If the \"wetness\" is un removable from your sounds, heads are gonna roll.
btw, dry fruit rocks!
Don\'t take this personally Thomas, I think you are right on with most all of your ideas and it\'s good to see that people are as hardcore as you!
Poor analogy! Sound in the real world is totally dry until it is affected by the environment. No matter what your method is you are adding \"Juice\" after the fact. Show me a trumpet that blows a reverbed sound out of it\'s bell and you may have a point. Play your dry trumpet sample in a hall and the effect is the same as when you play the real trumpet in the same hall (reverb wise).
Also, when playing a sound that was sampled with reverb, what happens when you stop playing? The reverb stops! That\'s less real than dry oranges any day! Don\'t tell me to adjust the release cause thats a totally different sound.
Hearing the same exact sample over and over is bad enough, let alone with the same exact reverb on it each time. A real hall or a good reverb unit will vary the quality of the reverb, thus giving the sound more life and character than the stagnant verbed samples.
Last point. If you intend on having your music played on TV or radio, be prepared for the reverb flood you will get because of the compression effect (yuck) wet city! If the \"wetness\" is un removable from your sounds, heads are gonna roll.
btw, dry fruit rocks!
Don\'t take this personally Thomas, I think you are right on with most all of your ideas and it\'s good to see that people are as hardcore as you!