Can you touch it ?

SKsolutions
SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
edited July 2009 in 2 Channel Audio
When you don't have anyone to bother around, and you really give it the juice on a good recording, . . . close your eyes. . . lean back, Can you touch it?
Can you feel it on you skin, does it breath in front of you and around you, does it move, is it real? This is the payoff for me. This is the goal. The rest is ****.
-Ignorance is strength -
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  • danz1906
    danz1906 Posts: 5,144
    edited July 2009
    SKsolutions wrote: »
    When you don't have anyone to bother around, and you really give it the juice on a good recording, . . . close your eyes. . . lean back, Can you touch it?
    Can you feel it on you skin, does it breath in front of you and around you, does it move, is it real? This is the payoff for me. This is the goal. The rest is ****.

    Well said-Enjoy!
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  • Ern Dog
    Ern Dog Posts: 2,237
    edited July 2009
    I'm with you.
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  • SKsolutions
    SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
    edited July 2009
    Thanks for the indulging my a somewhat emotional run-on sentence.:o Only someone so afflicted, can relate I suppose.
    For me, that is what this whole thing is about at times, transmitting the emotion. A decent setup can move you like a live performance would. It can fool you. If I can have that in my own house from time to time, then I feel pretty fortunate. There are better rigs, there always will be, but so what?. The point is that there is no 'rig' for that period of time. I'm in the hall, or 10 rows center, and life is good. There's never a bad seat, and it's only rained once ;)
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,484
    edited July 2009
    I feel you man... I just sent Dolly Parton home for the night. I wanted her to stay, but I need my sleep;).
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited July 2009
    Oh you buy your swag from Jose too? Yeah, he sells good stuff doesn't he.
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited July 2009
    SKsolutions wrote: »
    Thanks for the indulging my a somewhat emotional run-on sentence.:o Only someone so afflicted, can relate I suppose.
    For me, that is what this whole thing is about at times, transmitting the emotion. A decent setup can move you like a live performance would. It can fool you. If I can have that in my own house from time to time, then I feel pretty fortunate. There are better rigs, there always will be, but so what?. The point is that there is no 'rig' for that period of time. I'm in the hall, or 10 rows center, and life is good. There's never a bad seat, and it's only rained once ;)

    While I like(from time to time) the experience of being there,,the genre' has changed for me, so instead of Deep Purple,,it's now Millage Gilbert,,the emotional transferrence from artist to consumer/spectator is what is important for me,as well as hanging on to the "plucks of a guitar string,as the note gently fades away,if it takes me out of my room to someplace,where I can smell the sound,,then I have accomplished what I set out to do.YMMV.
    JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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  • SKsolutions
    SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
    edited July 2009
    Good point George, I happened to have a live album on. I was transported back in time a bit. It's nice to revisit the rockers, but for me it's become the exception. My preferences have changed markedly since I've revisited this hobby.
    If I get your post correctly, you are saying that a carefully arranged and recorded studio piece can be spectacular. I agree, and that is usually my choice as well. Live recording while using the signals for sound reinforcement is very difficult, so quite a few live albums are suck. :D By 'live', I was trying to convey what you put better with your post. I don't think it's too important whether it's recorded live, or that it sounds like it's being played all together. It's that it is more accessible, coherent, and very there. It has texture, drive and energy. The staging of venue and perspective is only important as part of the communication. The same tune can have close mic'd vocals or be sung a Capella in a cathedral. . .the song is the same, the message changes. One is close and intimate, maybe conspiratorial, the other ethereal, haunting, or lamented. If there is no art in the music, there is no soul.
    -Ignorance is strength -
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    edited July 2009
    A quick thought on an un-nerving track that made feel the emotion. O Death on the "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack. If I read this thread correctly, it conveys the same feeling like yours. Chills up the spine.
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited July 2009
    I think Sky put it well,,to sum it up in one word intimate
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited July 2009
    Russ,, you seem to be more of your old self,, meds all gone?;)
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    edited July 2009
    george daniel wrote: »
    Russ,, you seem to be more of your old self,, meds all gone?;)
    Back to my old cantankerous self. I'll be in GA next weekend.
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited July 2009
    lightman1 wrote: »
    Back to my old cantankerous self. I'll be in GA next weekend.

    Oh,, we must be back on your "circuit"
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    edited July 2009
    george daniel wrote: »
    Oh,, we must be back on your "circuit"
    Yep. Got sidetracked for a bit.
    Call Jerry and warn him.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,484
    edited July 2009
    If you make it to Indiana, don't forget my foot has a date with your a$$:p


    Glad you are back man.


    John
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    edited July 2009
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    If you make it to Indiana, don't forget my foot has a date with your a$$:p


    Glad you are back man.


    John
    Thanks Buddy. Gotta few weeks to work with. A midwest tour may be in order. Sorry I didn't stick around Indiana after the central PA gathering.
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  • BB3
    BB3 Posts: 297
    edited July 2009
    SKsolutions wrote: »
    When you don't have anyone to bother around, and you really give it the juice on a good recording, . . . close your eyes. . . lean back, Can you touch it?
    Can you feel it on you skin, does it breath in front of you and around you, does it move, is it real? This is the payoff for me. This is the goal. The rest is ****.

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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,208
    edited July 2009
    When I heard quadrophonic sound , I was hooked..
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • pearsall001
    pearsall001 Posts: 5,094
    edited July 2009
    Sounds just like I feel when I'm getting ready to dive into a "Hot Fudge Sundae"!!! (hold the cherry)
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