From jackoverfull@gmail.com Thu Feb 02 08:47:23 2012
Subject:Re: How exact are our ears?

Too long, sorry…
Il giorno 02/feb/2012, alle ore 17.30, frederick_somerville ha scritto:

> I think I will start this in its own tread.
>
> I think everyone on this list could benefit from listening to this workshop on the human ear and how we hear things.
>
> I have spent 1000´s of hours (since 1992) listening to my Hammond L100, Hammond B3´s my clones and recordings of Hammonds in all shapes and forms. All in search of an understanding of what makes a Hammond sound as good as it does.
> The R&D team at Hammond got things really right back in 1934 -1955 when they arrived at the B3. And Don Leslie also got it really right.
> And a lot of clever ppl are trying to reproduce the sound as truthfully as possible. And it took more or less 55 years or so get really close. If we exclude pure sampling.
> So here you go. Listen and reflect on what you hear or what you think your hear.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYTlN6wjcvQ
>
> And afterwards - think about how sure we can be of what clone X sounds in real life when having heard poor video recordings of clone X on you tube.
>
> And in the end lets not get so lost in the clonewars that we forget to play and have fun.
>
> /Frederick

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