Alan D
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Posted: Dec. 12 2005, 13:05 |
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So there I am, listening to Ringscape, and dreaming of snowy owls and ice caverns, and the music begins to fade, and in my mind the owl is flying further and further away ... and then suddenly, with a twist of the engineer's volume control that is almost palpable, the illusion is broken as the sound dips quickly to zero.
What I expect from a good fade is that illusion of the music disappearing gently into the distance - so gently that you can't quite decide where the music ends and where silence begins. But this ending to Ringscape is close to being an abortion, not an ending. All it needed was another few seconds of gentle diminishment of volume, but no - suddenly, enough is enough, says the engineer, and it's cut off, as though CD-playing time were money.
Does this bother anyone else?
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