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The recorded voice brings different sensations that often flout the canons of the direct voice, spoken or sung, but it is far from being unpleasant and it has become, by force of things, a standard. Our world is constantly saturated with music or recorded voices; few people can claim to have heard a particular performer with his or her live voice. Voices are optimized for recording and broadcasting; they must remain intelligible and are sometimes enriched, or even placed in a virtual environment, but our ears have become accustomed.

Figure I.1.

(source: www.projectrhea.org). For a color version of this figure, see www.iste.co.uk/reveillac/recording.zip

It is in part the facts I have just mentioned that led me to write this book, to which I would add the pleasure of bringing, to one or more performers, the possibility of discovering and hearing themselves on a medium such as a CD, DVD, streaming platform, podcast, etc.

I will not forget the listeners nor the public for whom we all work in fine: artists, commentators, singers, sound engineers, technicians, etc.