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Year: 2026
The benefits are real and mostly not the ones cited in marketing.
A continuous quiet sound with no transient defeats most of the usual drum recording approach.
Historically informed performance changed tuning, tension and articulation together.
Compression that suits pop actively removes what acoustic music is doing.
Dreadnought, orchestra model, parlour. The differences are audible and predictable on a recording.
A large instrument producing low frequencies in a small room is the hardest thing to capture in...
A released performance is usually edited from several takes. The practice is old, disclosed and defensible.
Coincident, spaced and near-coincident are three answers to one question: how does a listener locate a sound?
A guitar radiates different sound in every direction, so placement changes the instrument.