On 13 Feb 2001, at 14:51, Mark Cramer wrote: > A year ago, a client told me she had several notes on her (Baldwin) console > that physically hurt her ear when she played them. [liberal cutting] Mark, I may be way off base on this, but I also had a client with the same complaint in the same area. Only difference was that it was on a new Baldwin studio, not a console. The client was delighted at the results. (I've personally yet to walk away from a Baldwin with a warm fuzzy feeling). The "fix" was doing one or both of the following to the offending notes: 1. Torch hammershank and respace. The hammer wasn't hitting the string squarely. Results are the goal; cosmetics are last in list of priorities. - Leveled strings. Same idea as above, and once discovered it was quite obvious. I don't normally bother with this type of thing on verticals. In either case, for lack of a better explanation, and since rescaling was out of the question, I'm calling this a phasing problem that revealed itself when certain intervals were played. Jim Harvey [I just fix the stuff, I don't build it] Jim Harvey harvey@greenwood.net Greenwood (n): the largest city in South Carolina WITHOUT an Interstate
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