Helplessly, I'm still drumming fingers for my tweaking materials. I'm not a patient person.
Hanging tight, I can't sit still doing nothing. Though idling about all day my, mind is active. When passion is concern, work becomes a joy. Win some, lose some, it's a norm. Three steps forward, two steps back, as I take tweaking up to next level, hence, my nick charlatan. To those who can hear, they call me a magician. Two sides of the same coin.
Hate it or love it, room acoustics is a subject people taken lightly, definitely subpar to equipment. A deep-seated affinity of tangibility that things that we can see and touch has a greater impact, for sure. The matter-of-fact acoustics is a boring subject, serving as a complementary role to a greater thing. Any system that doesn't leverage on acoustics will be mediocre at its best. Nothing comes from nothing, real results demand real actions. Your sound will speak for itself.
Good sound is never easy peasy. Make matter worse if you don't have a room. Windows, asymmetrical walls, corridor, openings, decorated paster ceiling work against you, what will be will be. If my attention is drawn to fluency and flow of music, it's now on specificity.
My recent audio undertaking uncovers the drag I never know exist. I refined the focus on the imaging. My violin is now sensational on this unexpected turn of event with a small tweak, by incident. My highs gain the featheriness, an uncommon trait. As opposed to dark and roundish, I bag the very much welcomed swiftness. Overall, this brings forth a more detailed and lightweight presentation. I also noticed the upshift of tonal balance, it works well with my darker sound.
I can't explain how this inconspicuous tweak work, a cut back on comb filter effect came to my mind. Miraculous on the bass, the woolliness is now a thing of the past. The sound exhibits skeletal architecture layering upon the existing analogue-ness. Voices for instance, more see through quality on hitting the high note. More facial depiction. And piano, steely notes shine through, sharp and discrete, nimble and quick with the improved resolution. Captivating.
Heads over heels, this old man is going strong.
