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. -- Best, Goran Finnberg The Mastering Room AB Goteborg Sweden E-mail: [log in to unmask] Learn from the mistakes of others, you can never live long enough to make them all yourself. - John Luther