Dtmodttl

Hi, I'm not an audio engineer by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm a trained musician. In my view, you have to place your mind in sound all throughout the day. Listen to a train go by: What notes do you hear? What chords do you hear? Try to identify each one. Tonight, my neighbour turned on her air conditioning. I could hear it in my place, because our window was open. I was telling my wife about the sound projection. It was reflecting off the wall in our dining room, and I traced the beam of sound with my finger to demonstrate. I thought it was cool. She was bored. :-) "Perfect" pitch: I think I used to have it when I only played the piano. Then, I took up clarinet, which is concert pitch b flat. Then, I took up guitar, and with all kinds of different tunings, you can throw the whole idea of "correct" pitch into the waste bin. What about microtonality? What happens to neat scales and modes then? It's about the art and what sounds good to you, and what you're trying to convey. Of course, sometime it will be "correct" pitch that you're trying to convey. I'd say you have to listen to whatever you've recorded a number of times. Ever listen to piece of music in a car with the windows rolled down and the volume not up very high? The pitch of the music becomes fuzzy, because it's interacting with the air. If you have an active mind, you can turn the pitch into anything you want to hear. Then, turn up the volume and surprise yourself. The "correct" pitch really hits the ear. To me, I notice how much "key" really matters. A piece of music in the key of F major becomes a very different piece when transposed to E. Hope that helps, though I appreciate it may not. :-) Dt