Mmm, duplication of 'live' is such a 'moving target'. Since one is listening to a recording of a live performance (for example) that's gone through myriad equipment and processes in the interval. It seems to me (IMHO time) that the only way one could really make the comparison properly is to have been at that performance. And even then there's the contrast of where one was sitting, one's state of mind, and the influence of memory.
*Sigh* We're left with attempting to recreate as best as one can our opinion of what it sounded like, or should sound like...in an entirely different space.
Studio work boils down to the artist(s) working with the engineer(s) to make the work sound like what's in the artist(s) mind. There's a certain simplicity in that...
We can either approach that reproduction with either 'bare bones' or a more complex combination of items.
Either way, it comes down to what sounds good to you. And the guy next to you will think it sounds like dreck and you're brain damaged or have a hearing malfunction.
*L* And we're right back to 'what sounds good/right to you, and the enjoyment of that. And 'twas always thus, and will always will be.
MHO and yours....;) May not or never be the same, but many things are like that...
*Sigh* We're left with attempting to recreate as best as one can our opinion of what it sounded like, or should sound like...in an entirely different space.
Studio work boils down to the artist(s) working with the engineer(s) to make the work sound like what's in the artist(s) mind. There's a certain simplicity in that...
We can either approach that reproduction with either 'bare bones' or a more complex combination of items.
Either way, it comes down to what sounds good to you. And the guy next to you will think it sounds like dreck and you're brain damaged or have a hearing malfunction.
*L* And we're right back to 'what sounds good/right to you, and the enjoyment of that. And 'twas always thus, and will always will be.
MHO and yours....;) May not or never be the same, but many things are like that...