What is PRaT


I know this is a stupid question, but what is PRaT
ehoehn

Boa2 hears it as I do, often heard it as allied to transient attack vs. decay. The warmer the system the more decay increased, this may be perceived as slower.

 

I also believe timing issue can be easily heard with certain digital. Jitter is exactly timing issue, higher jitter causes what people describe as digititus or fatigue. Get the timing right, sound becomes more coherent, natural.

one dealer. Any time he started a system, he'd start dancing in place. 

My nephew has a toy that does that.  Very cute.

Did your dealer do some Michael Jackson moves, or something out of Pulp Fiction?

 

cindyment

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If people use the term PRaT a lot, they are probably a prat. I suggest the Urban Dictionary for the best reference.

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PRaT, in my book, also has clean delineated 'plosives. part of the package.

It requires a clean start and stop of a transient, with no out of phase smear or lag in the signal additions that are unwanted, which would cover up the fine aspects of the plosive or transient. the requirement is one of a clean wideband low distortion and high signal to noise ratio signal reproduction. That's what it takes to get a plosive right. Live amplified vs reproduced. the trick is, of course, to get the reproduction to sound like the live and amplified.

When all that is working, we can naturally and natively extract or witness 'PRaT' in the amplified and reproduced signal..

Pace Rhythm and Timing.  From there it’s whatever you want that to be.