Hey gang, been a while...
I just discovered something, maybe it's just me, but wanted to see if there's other weirdos like me out there. I was listening to a song on headphones, and was trying to identify the individual instruments and how they were placed in the mix. Drums were panned hard L&R ( ) and it sounded like there were two hihats both right (correct) and left (incorrect) . It was then that I discovered that by turning my eyes left, I could hear clearly that the sound on the left was a tambourine, and the sound on the right, the hihat. Not only that, by using my eyes left and right (I also did this eyes closed, it doesn't make a difference), I discovered that I could hear details that I wasn't able to hear with my eyes straight forward. I've been doing this job 20 odd years now, and I've never noticed this before.
And, no, I'm not high...
Weird phenomenonenon
I see what you're saying!
Eye hear you loud and clear.
That's a sound observation!
A variation on the Cocktail Party effect?
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Synesthesia a little?
Originally Posted by Bob Ohlsson
Everything is some mixture of awesome and suck. We simply want the awesome to be highlighted sufficiently that it distracts listeners from the suck.
*Hey, if I'm Grumpy, where the hell is Snow White???? *
Everything is some mixture of awesome and suck. We simply want the awesome to be highlighted sufficiently that it distracts listeners from the suck.
*Hey, if I'm Grumpy, where the hell is Snow White???? *
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Synesthesia a little?
Originally Posted by Bob Ohlsson
Everything is some mixture of awesome and suck. We simply want the awesome to be highlighted sufficiently that it distracts listeners from the suck.
*Hey, if I'm Grumpy, where the hell is Snow White???? *
Everything is some mixture of awesome and suck. We simply want the awesome to be highlighted sufficiently that it distracts listeners from the suck.
*Hey, if I'm Grumpy, where the hell is Snow White???? *
Synesthesia a lot!
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One of the first lessons I was given when I started working in post was to compare two mixes for a music video. One had been supplied by the label and the other had been mixed from stems by my boss while watching the picture on a pretty big screen. The minute you turned the TV picture off, the mix from the label sounded way better. The excitement level totally reversed when you turned the picture on. I think most artists would shit bricks if they knew how much vision affects hearing and musical perception.
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