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In the Thread: Too damn loud?

Post Subject: A Charlie Schlueter syndrome?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/2/2014

I know, I know, rowuk. I was teasing you with your trumpetness, trust me it was playful. The reality is that I do not feel that it all about Strawinskys trumpet vs. Bruckner trumpet or about Antol Dorati's trumpets vs. Guntar Wand trumpets. With trumpets it is very seldom right. It is the players who seldom play at right volume. Then it is a conductor who not always set his trumpet at right volume. Then it is sound people who never record trumpets right with orders, not to mention that they decide to "ride" the trumpets based upon their own stupid audio views. And of cause it is the nature of trumpets profile beaming. From horn perspective trumpet is very directional devise and volume and to a large degree texture balance audients get very different depending where they sit. I was attending a very good performance of Mahler 6 with lead trumpetist did a phenomenal job but the guy felt truly uncomfortable with an incredible stupid set of microphones positioned right in front of him. So the guy was visually uncomfortable and sometime and was swinging his trumpets violently to avoid that microphone. Thansfuly I was not sitting on the axis of the trumpet otherwise it would be each time different volume and transient. Well it would work for Mahler of course :-)....

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