Range between tonal and noiselike character
- We have no control during playback, except w.r.t. dynamic range of our system, i.e. potential volume and noise floor, the rest is inherent in the recording.
How do i control this attribute in my room?
Controls of mechanical and electrical and acoustical noise floor....With the many homemade devices you mocked and whichi used successfully at NO COST....
Time envelope in terms of rise, duration, and decay (ADSR, which stands for "attack, decay, sustain, release")
- With the exception of decay, which is room dependent, we have very limited control of this on playback
controls of decay with MY acoustical settings is KEY here.... In my room...
Changes both of spectral envelope (formant-glide) and fundamental frequency (micro-intonation)
- Again frequency response
Yes frequency modified response potentials of my room by my Helmholtz tubes and pipes modifying the original response of my room....
Prefix, or onset of a sound, quite dissimilar to the ensuing lasting vibration
- Again, either in the recording or affected by the room.
Precisely the acoustical controls in my room play a greater part here also than the source recording Why?
Because the best source in the world with the best system will NEVER give a good and natural perception of timbre in a BAD ROOM....
Have you forget the CRUX of this discussion possessed by the urgency to be right against all at all cost repeating this mantra of frequency response in the face of a complex problem ?
The recording source is one HALF of the story when we speak about timbre perception, the most important half is the acoustical control of the room which will permet or not a good or very good RECREATION of the information encoded in the source....Remember that this information encoded in the source is NEVER complete nor perfect by reason of trade-off locations and types of mic. in use by the recording engineer esthetical or practical choices....
Then playback experience can never be equal to lived experience...
This is the reason why RECREATION of timbre perception being a complex acoustical and fundamental experience is the BENCHMARK test if we want to know if our system is good or not.....
