acoustics

Are the stands having any impact on the music/sound? If so, what?

 

The stand is definitely having an impact on the sound because of the shape of the stand, the ground the people in it and the the stand it self and the glass windows

 

the reason for  this:

 

the stands shape : the shape of the stand makes a "C" at the top which makes the sound bounce back making a small reverberation witch makes that bounces back to the  the marching band the reason the reverberation is not as strong is because of all the opens space.

 

the ground: the ground in this video appears to be fulled with grass. this has a massive effect due to the little hole with in the ground. The percussion used has a up down sound and when the sound hits the ground it observe making the sound quiet and taking the reverberation.

 

The audience: the human body observe the sound due  to the  surface on the our skin being soft.

 

The glass: Glass reflect image but it also reflect sound because of the hard surface.

Why do marching bands have so many instruments, and loud ones!
marching are known to for their loud instruments. the reason its loud its because they are meant to cheer audience before in open spaces the amount of instrument's effect how loud the sound is.

Is this music suitable for the acoustic environment? Why?

 

this type of music is only suitable for outdoor because if the track is played in a small environment the sound becomes unbearable due to reverberation bouncing aggressively  against the wall. the instruments they use is are all loud and having the song played out side makes the sound loud enough for the audeince to hear and the song becomes more enjoyable due to no hard serface stoping the sound.

 

B) Can you hear any reverberation. Do you think that comes from the room or might there be some digital reverb? Give reasons for your answer.
instruments: key board acoustic guitar1 main cords, acoustic guitar2 solo

keyboard: I can hear a small amount of reverberation but this might be coming from the amplifier but or an software on the computer but its digital not analog

guitar1: guitar is made out of the revered sounds. so when it came to recording lots of guitar has a mic inside the body of the guitar and this guitar happens to be one. but what happens that sound within the body goes down the line to whatever is being recorded making the sound more controllable from the mixing desk.

guitar 2: guitar 2  is doing the solo and what the band did which was really smart was to use the acoustic guitar with the bigger body to do the solo they also used a a dynamic mic to record the sound instead of the in built mic which has a small amount of reverb in it .

the vocal: the singer seems to have no reverb if you don't pay attention to the song but towards the end when the instruments stops and he carry on singing, you can here a lot of reverb.

Do you think the guitars are recorded through a mic or down a line?the guitar1:down the line

guitar 2:microphone

keyboard: down a line

vocals: microphone.

Describe the texture of the music. Does the acoustic environment suit the music?

the music definitely suits the environment but because the equipment is good it can the music they made can be recorded almost anywhere.

Describe the texture of the music (it is not the same throughout so mention where it changes.


Is the music suitable for the space / is the space suitable for the music?

 

 

 

 

Listening style 5

New Order - blue monday

This track is pretty much made using a synthesiser. The bass-line are done using the arpeggio option the melody much does the same thing.

The Instruments used:
Guitar, synthesiser, synthesised drums.
Through out the song they used lots of sounds created by the synth to sound different

The mood the track creat is happy due to the major notes used through out

Listening: Style 4

Q1 what this song has 3 guitar playing different parts one of the guitars plays with the rhythm

Q2: well this song has elements of blues but the song it self isn't the reason for this the reason for this is because the drums is at a standard 4/4 song structure. the song also don't have a improvised vocal line the singer in the song sings the hole song in one specific note, another difference is that the song is not slow it goes about 120-130 B.P.M and it has cords playing through out. What this song has that a 12 bar blues has is that the they both has a blue scale bass line, it has a guitar playing around the blue scale and it has a harmonica doing sliding with the guitarist bending notes.

Listening style 3

Amy Winehouse version of the girl from Ipanema beach sounds happy and lively and what makes it more lively and happy is the fact the the drums has a lot more fills with the bossanova rhythm in it and what gives it that bassanova style mixed with the jazz is style is the guitar.What gives the guitar that calm relaxing sound is the fact that the guitarist is playing the guitar by pulling the strings with the soft part of the the finger which makes the lower note acoustics sound fuller and and rich and still have that nice high note sound played on the guitar also whats important is that