What to listen for?


This is aside to the obvious ones such as does a piano sound like a piano, the singer's voice sound close to them live, etc.

So, what I am trying to put together a list of songs where there is something specific to listen for. For instance, in the song Guinevere (CS&N) I have read that Crosby should sound as if he's standing in your room, front and center. On the acoustic Hot Tuna Album, they are playing in a bar and a beer bottle breaks landing on the floor  - it should be sharp and sound like it's in the room with you. On Babylon Sisters there are some cymbal crashes on the left that should be crisp and not smeared. On a Beatles song (I forget which), a chair squeaks and a door opens and closes in the studio. 

A good system will revel these little things. Any other that you have heard of? 

 

 

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When playing the album The Big Sounds of the Drags, my system system can reveal the differences between Hooker headers and Hedman headers.  I'm not quite there yet on Quadrajet vs Holley carburetors, but I'm hoping some minor "tweaks" will get me there.

I'm open for suggestions.

During “Tin Pan Alley” Stevie Ray and Double Trouble there are a couple times you hear the drum stick contacting the rim of the snare and times Stevie sings the word better you can hear the pop of air hitting the mic.

"Jackie Wilson Said", Van the Man @ 2:03~2:04....;)  My fave hiccup...

Ah, the drags are only good to go when you're There....   The roar of the fuel, the smell of the crowd....😏  Not to mention the heat blast from a AA fueler 'bout a quarter of the quarter, down track.

Not to mention what has and could go Very Wrong Very Fast of late.... *shrug*

....Paul Simon lighting a cigarette and blowing the match out, into the mic....there's another oldie...

I don’t go out of my way to focus on such details-- it's not "what I listen for" -- but whatever floats your boat...