bointon@kcl-cs.UUCP (Marcus "Bru" Bointon) (04/08/91)
I have heard the Madonna CD on a pretty good hi-fi. I was pretty sceptical about how effective it might be. It's a nice surprise! The rumbles at the start of "rescue me" are very effective, and the initial "What you looking at" in Vogue goes all over the place. The general ambiance generated is quite definitely larger than on other recordings. Much of the processing has been applied to the quieter percussion sounds- you keep hearing sounds coming from above you, in particular. Very odd. Oh, and of course, since it relies on the phase relationships between channels, it doesn't work through headphones! Marcus Bointon.
brownd@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu (David H. Brown) (04/09/91)
In article <1991Apr10.035546.18831@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> studer@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Andrew Studer) writes: > >Aha: someone has mentioned that "The Soul Cages" uses QSOUND. > >I haven't noticed anything amazingly different about this album [...] > True, indeed. It's a bit hard to tell what QSound sounds like without a non-Q reference. It can't be switched off or anything like that. But I'm kind of glad that we can't tell... I almost expected some sort of acoustic tragedy ... perhaps gross-sounding phase shifting or unrealistic EQ. Perhaps less is more. Perhaps somebody trying to promote the process will release an A/B comparison on a tape. >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Andrew Studer | "Life is like a sewer: what you >studer@alfven.physics.su.oz.au | get out of it depends on what >Plasma Physics Dept, School of Physics | you put into it." >University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia | - Tom Lehrer >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ St. Olaf may or may not have nothing | M M | M M M | M M | M M M | M M | to do with the things I talk about. | M M | M M M | M M | M M M | M M | | M M | M M M | M M | M M M | M M | Dave Brown: brownd@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "I _like_ programming the DX-7!" |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|
studer@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Andrew Studer) (04/10/91)
Aha: someone has mentioned that "The Soul Cages" uses QSOUND. I haven't noticed anything amazingly different about this album, except in one spot: on "All this time", the first single, there is a picked guitar track playing a single note rhythmic accompaniment. When I set the speakers up carefully, I hear this part to be very precisely "located"- much more so than just the average L/R pan etc. I've also seen a photo of the new Roland processing device. In keeping with new Roland policy, it has lots of sliders on it. The jury's still out as to whether it works, though. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Andrew Studer | "Life is like a sewer: what you studer@alfven.physics.su.oz.au | get out of it depends on what Plasma Physics Dept, School of Physics | you put into it." University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia | - Tom Lehrer +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++