Dave A Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 What steps will you take to demaster these? I have found some that behave funny and don't know what to do. Ran them through Audacity with clip fix and then nomalize but still they sound distorted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 Let me know which ones (by BWV number) and I'll take a look. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave A Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 You can sure tell these are mechanical organs. Lots of clacking in the background. I wonder how pronounced that is in real life? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 It varies in my experience. Tracker organs can be fairly noisy--just as noisy as you hear in the recordings. I assume that the flue action of each organ could be quietened using modern methods, but then you've got to justify it to those wanting "authenticity". (I think the world would be a lot better if those craving authenticity in music wouldn't worry about it nearly so much.) While we're on that subject, there is something called a "Forte-piano" ("loud-soft" in Italian). These are the pianos that existed before the mid-1800s (before the concert grands that we hear today, etc.). They sound like cheap spinet pianos by comparison. I've got a few CDs of Ronald Brautigam playing Beethoven piano sonatas on one. I don't play the recordings very often--but these recordings are conveying how the piano sounded in Beethoven's time. The traditionalists I'm sure are applauding those recordings. They sound like the pianos that we had in practice rooms in the music buildings of high schools--most of which where badly out of tune. I can see why the modern concert grand pianos really changed the music repertoire in the mid-19th century. Liszt, et al. really had an advantage over earlier composers and performers in the sound of their instruments when they were performing...BIG difference in sound. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave A Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Ran across this today and will be playing it is the shop once the wife wakes up. This one too. S-MWM will be hopping later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTusler Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Here is an interesting video on the construction of these amazing instruments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kilo5ezDJGk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTusler Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 The music at the end of this presentation will give your subwoofer a good test. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywxFfTHLF_s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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