bourdon wrote:Finally, to put it in other words ( and that will be all !..) ,:
- when I listen to something I recorded on such or such organ captured on a high quality sound bank, I find it realistic enough to "believe" it was recorded on the real organ.
- but during the time I'm playing on this same virtual organ , whatever its quality, I don't fully find myself playing on the real instrument ( which is at least explainable by the inevitable lack of environment: physical presence in the Church,physical contact with the instrument, real acoustics of the building, light, air, etc….).
Well, that's all ! Sorry if I have taken too much place on the forum with these few remarks!
An interesting post indeed and the original question has once again kind of morphed into another area here but all is relevant depending on your desired outcome. You don't say exactly how you are making your comparisons other than sitting at the bench, so I will make a couple of assumptions, the main one being you are comparing playing live and what you hear in comparison to what you hear during playback through the same system. When you compare sitting at the bench playing and how things sound listening to the same piece you've uploaded, there's a couple of major factors. First, regardless if your listening situation at the bench is playing live through head phones or speakers, or is recorded using the HW recorder, and is then played back using the HW recorder, providing you're using the exact same listening situation for the playback part, should and will result in no difference in sound at all. Once you upload the recording to CCH, then the game changes as you may be going from listening to a multi-channel set up in your room to listening to the same recording through head phones or what have you. Even if you listen to the exact same uploaded recording through your multi-channel HW set-up, it is going to sound different because you are going from multi-channel to straight stereo as the multi-channel part is then lost. CCH will only play back what you've recorded in 2- channel stereo regardless of how many speakers you have and how you have the audio in HW set up.
So, the point here being and brings up something else, if you like how your recordings sound through CCH better than how you like the sound when you play live, may indicate considering a change in how you have your "live" set-up configured while listening at the bench. More proof it isn't just about what makes a good organ speaker.
Marc