What makes cymbals sound real?

[mikessi]

Funny how two-faced I am as a singer guitarist / audiophile. One one hand, I want someone else's instrument to sound "real", like it's "there" in my listening space. On the other, that's the last thing I want to present to an audience, preferring a highly processed sound, as might come from someone's studio after they fiddled with it to their heart's content..

That is quite interesting. I noodle around on an acoustic guitar, rarely to an audience, and sometimes record myself but want it to sound as accurate as possible, like me, live -- other than the multi- tracking I sometimes use for voice.

 

[Audio>X]

LOW COST EQ + FOR PC USE
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Basic is free 🙂

 

[Juhazi]

I extracted 30s audio c,ips from YT versions in posts 199 and 200 by Audio>X. Pretty good dynamics, transients in #200 ...