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On 03/04/06, Goran Finnberg wrote: > Steve Smolian wrote: > >> he was hearing them without room resonance, echo, delay, etc., >> factors which usually slow down a performance to accomodate >> the music absorbtion rate of the audience. > > Which makes the practice of adding echo after the recording highly > dubious for classical music as you're correct that the tempo is set by > how long the ambience is in the room where the recording was done. > > Hearing a very fast tempo and a 7 seconds church ambience is a dead > give away that orchestra and room have never seen each other in the > flesh. So would Beethoven's metronome marks work only in Studio 8H? Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]