The Daughter of Audio

I do many weird things in Jakarta. Contrary to the popular belief, I’m not feeling bored in Jakarta although what I essentially do is just wake up-eat-watch DVD/read books/teasing siblings/playing with the new dog-eat-sleep-wake up-etc.

There is this one thing I do that is so interesting I just wanna share =P well, I don’t really have time to go through my music collection while in Singapore. My music bank was just my “filler” to make me not feeling lonely while doing.. Well you know what I’m doing in Singapore. But in Jakarta, hearing my favourite tunes through my headphone made me realize unique things about recordings.

Note : I recommend using headphone to hear the tracks I include below

I guess, usually, vocal-focused tracks will be engineered in such a way that when you’re using a headphone to hear them, the singer’s voice will be “in the middle”. (Btw, my father said good speakers are speakers that can make the voice appears to be “in the middle”)

This is an example of that kind of track. “Vulnerable” by Secondhand Serenade. I might say that this track is kinda plain (not regarding the melodies/lyrics. That part, it’s wonderful). The track is engineered in a way that it stays to be “in the middle”. Well, it’s an acoustic piece anyway. That’s the best way, I suppose. You will be annoyed to hear the guitar strums playing in the left ear, then right ear, then left ear again, right?

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