Live, Records and acoustic. Why so difference?

What we hear in recording studio, in live concert and purely acoustic presentation, are they the same?
The answer is certainly, NO!

In recording studio, they provide the best ambient acoustic for different instrument.

• They use best instruments.

• They use the best microphone to pick up signals from instruments.

• They use the best balanced/digitized mixer to mix all the instrument together.

• Then, pan to left or right the position of each instrument.Trying to get the most real positioning.
  

• Then, equalize if they feel all sounds are blended up till some instrument could not stand out.

• They use the best monitor (but those with weak bass) to examine the clearance.

• Then they cut off the unwanted acoustic noise of each songs.

• Remix it into 24bit, full bandwidth, burn to CD with the best machine.

• Remixed and equalized means not original already.

• sell.

So, what bout live?

• They use the best instruments also.

• But the room ambient is not that desired kind, but is also the one that recording studio can never ever achieve.

• They use the best microphone, and signal cable,

• But they need to control feedback.

• Hence, a parabolic equalizer is introduced to each instrument, to cut off the aggressive feedback frequency.
• They cut off the ultra low frequency to increase the clearance of each instrument, since the ambient is big, the audience at back row will only hear some annoying ultra low bass.

• It become narrow bandwidth.

• It doesn't sound original after all these major 'operation', Especially if the instrument used is not having a good pickup.

• Some very pro pro audio master use stereo in their concert, hence they can pan the position of each instrument.

Acoustic presentation?

• Normal instruments, no mic, low volume (CD volume), no feedback.

• Every instruments' position is clearly heard.

• But the volume may not be balanced or even.

• PA system or mixer is unavoidable if blending guitar into a brass band or string band.

• It's the most natural sound.

So, people prefer live or concert? It depends. If he wants ultimate clear sound, like what you expect to hear the difference between Martin guitar and Taylor's guitar, then CD is the choice.

If you prefer Live mood, the sense of 'big', you'll like to choose concert.

No one can overtake anyone. Even with the best audio equipment!

Pi- a- no....ba da ba pa ba.... I'm lovin' It.....!!

I love piano, like many other do.

I was at my church that day, a night in year 2004. Service was over and most of the members gone home. I saw the digital piano sitting right beside me. I'd never ever touch it before, since i'm a guitarist and piano....

....When i was in primary three, i learnt some basic. It wasn't even grade 1, it was so called LEVEL 1. It was really boring, i have to say (and i understand why a lot of children don't really like piano, especially at lower grade. The song are made easy, but it doesn't really sound that good. I stopped it after three weeks. LOL (Not even one month)!!.....

Don't know why, mayb out of curiosity, i turn on the main power switch and pressed some key on it. A little girl came, and she just pressed on the 'demo' button.

Can you imagine? A digital piano connected to the main PA, through the FOH speakers amplified by the Peavey-made-in-USA mixer rated at 110W r.m.s, and my church is no bigger that 100 people venue..... It was loud! LOUD!

Chopin Fantaisie Impromptu in C#m just flying all over the place, like a dancing elephant LOL, till now still i remember that tune, in fact i like it very much. LOL!

It just sounds like waterfall, ya.. or .. like kinda... fantasy! Thinking out of the box and stuff like that. Chopin is really a genius in piano indeed!

So, i started piano (in fact keyboard) from a beginner training course provided by church. I learnt pop songs, which i managed to convert straight away from guitar chords and style.

So, i picked up my piano. I keep improvising, hoping one day i can play my tune and compose my tune which sounds like waterfall, something modern that chopin never saw before, and not following any theory.. ?? It's just a dream that drives me to continue my piano, and absorbing new stuff!

By the way, Jazz is just like Taylor's series or Gamma function etc.. (just learnt today at skol, LOL). Too many theories it has, and at last, when all blend together, you can just play any notes u like, provided it sounds nice. Ya, that's music, sounds GOOD...

Jay Chow vs LeeHom? I Think..

"Jay Chow and LeeHom, the most famous superstar cum singer cum copmoser in chinese music, who is better?" someone asked me. And naturally, there is no answer for this!

Let's talk about music. Ignoring what's their paper and certs, education, etc, both of them shows equal talent on music.

When Jay first pop out from nowhere, his music is mainly on funk and rap genre, which is quite similar to the Western music. Yet, from his second album onwards, his music is damn creative, i will say, the whole experience of the song is like.. 'watching a movie'!!! It's because a lot of his composing is made up by great varieties of harmonic style, which was mainly used in classical music. Next thing, don't know up until which album (sorry for that!! lol), he convert again, to the romance classical style, aka 'the Chopin style'+'Chinese Tradition'. Impressed. At least no composer in chinese music ever did that in pop music. And it sounds great! LOL, in fact, his one is already not a typical pop music, it's his music.. Jay Chow's music.

And it's very different form the western music as well.
it doesn't require much instrument skills and technique, yet it sounds nice and harmony, and most importantly, cool and trendy aka 'classical music which is trendy'! But one drawback. The recent album sounds like.. a repitition of another album??

LeeHom? Ya, no doubt he is as good. Every album having new idea'ssss'. Every idea is genuine. People tends to copy his stuff, because it's special. His main composing style is to combine chinese music with the Western 'black' music (which i like more), and quite good his job. And his composing, I'd never heard before (such as the mongolian, chinked out etc)! And it's 'LeeHom's style'...

If compared, Jay improvises white music and blend in rap and chinese music. LeeHom improvises black music and blend in chinese music and some classical composing technique also.

So, there is no winner or loser. One same objective there did: To introduce the Chinese Music to the world!

LOL, but a lot of people don't know how to appreciate their work, and their efforts. Usually those songs which is composed with great skills and effort are those that public dislike the most.LOL

Anyway, Jay and LeeHom, continue your work ! U guys did great music!

Yet another kind of musi'que'.

I was amazed by this tought: "Is there any other kind of music, which is different from the music we currently have?"

From the past, the renaissance, classical, romance, delta blues.....till the current pop, every single piece of music are made no more than those '8 notes', a.k.a. "do re mi fa sol la ti do", or if we consider the sharp and flat, 12 notes. Every single piece, even for the Ancient chinese music, it was so. I saw before, a Song Dynasty emporer trying to get the 8th notes with a flute. The book said that he found the 8th note!!, yet it's actually the higher octave's 'do'. So there is no other rule than 12 notes rule.

Some gutarist or trumpetist managed to do some pitch tuning job, such as guitar string bending or over blowing the harmonics and stufff like that. These are only some approcaching method we use to enter an actual note, and it occurs ocassionally without ant proper theory.

So, is there any kind of music in this world that divide one key to more than 12 notes, say, 24 notes? I heard this kind of music for the 1st time during my school's music club Annual Meeting.

We call it experimental music.

I went and listen, not much different.(perhaps i still haven't found those songs which really shows the different.)

It divide one key into maybe 13 notes or 26 notes? It'll sound more like what we call polyphonic ringtones.. I'm thinking, if one day we can divide a musical instrument into 64 notes, when playing it, it should really sounds like what we call bird sing. (sounds really like the real bird.) or other natural phenomenon.

1st instrument to be used in this kind of music is those fretless string instrument, or some wind instruments which the notes is mainly controlled by lips.

But it's really too hard to do this kind of music, seriously. 12 notes on 'bumblebee' needs a pro pianist already, if i say, 64 notes? should be piano pro Pro PRO!!!

HaHa, current music is not so not nice actually, and the effort to defind a new music theory is not that easy though, it has more notes with more harmony forms...

One thing to mention, during the past, Van Gogh trying mimic the scene to the most in his painting. However, during his older age, he prefer Impressionist. Yes! less colour, more inner meaning. This is what we want in art, the hidden meaning ( shakespeare's are like that as well).

So music, the more complicated the better or the more harmony the better ? more notes better or more inner meaning better?

It depends on who you are and how's your taste!

Music Physics Litreature Art!!

Music- my favourite de-stress dessert. From cd to instruments, from jazz to classic. Bravo!

Physics- i wish to learn them all! it's interesting, and it shows how 'I' is actually should written as 'i'! (not imaginary.. but it means 'small').

Litreature=Art= Another part of our life. Nowadays people focuses on logic and maths, Art and litreature are neglected (but luckily, not fully). Sigh!!!

That's it!

i'm new, hope that we can share stuff and enjoy together!