Why would this be done to a recording??
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 11:13 pm
To tapers, traders, and live-music-recording enthusiasts in general, I pose a query:
I recently experienced something entirely new (for me) in my long history of listening to live music recordings. I listened to:
09/14/2004: Glenn Miller Ballroom - University of Colorado: Boulder, CO - 3 mic matrix
Set I: Lotsa Sox, Fear of Falling, From the Gecko> Paper Birds, Gilberto Gil, Reddish Moon, Poor Boy, Even Rats, Get Me with Fuji, If One of Us Should Fall, Children of December
Notes: [ robert - Fri Sep 17 2004
I was at this show and I wanted to hear it again, all these years later. There were a lot of segues in this show, and at all of these points whoever did the post on this faded out each track while the music was still going, often really still going, totally omitting some unknown number of minutes from the ends of songs. Likewise, the songs being segued into are faded in, "starting" the songs at some point past the true beginning. I've been trying to figure out why a taper would choose to do this, erasing some of the music at the ends and beginnings of songs by using fade-out/fade-in. I think the only time fade-out was not used was on songs that had definitive endings (i.e., no segues).
Does anyone have an opinion about this or know why it would be done? If you give the first few tracks a listen you'll hear exactly what I'm describing right away. Thanks.
I recently experienced something entirely new (for me) in my long history of listening to live music recordings. I listened to:
09/14/2004: Glenn Miller Ballroom - University of Colorado: Boulder, CO - 3 mic matrix
Set I: Lotsa Sox, Fear of Falling, From the Gecko> Paper Birds, Gilberto Gil, Reddish Moon, Poor Boy, Even Rats, Get Me with Fuji, If One of Us Should Fall, Children of December
Notes: [ robert - Fri Sep 17 2004
I was at this show and I wanted to hear it again, all these years later. There were a lot of segues in this show, and at all of these points whoever did the post on this faded out each track while the music was still going, often really still going, totally omitting some unknown number of minutes from the ends of songs. Likewise, the songs being segued into are faded in, "starting" the songs at some point past the true beginning. I've been trying to figure out why a taper would choose to do this, erasing some of the music at the ends and beginnings of songs by using fade-out/fade-in. I think the only time fade-out was not used was on songs that had definitive endings (i.e., no segues).
Does anyone have an opinion about this or know why it would be done? If you give the first few tracks a listen you'll hear exactly what I'm describing right away. Thanks.