If that is how the talent (singer/musicians) approved the mix then yes. As a minimum, I would want to hit a button, hear that and know whether if I am messing with the sound, I am making it better or not.Amir-Do you really want recording engineers to be forced to have all voices coming out of your speakers at exactly 1:00 or all depth to be no more than 10’ behind your speakers?
BTW, I didn't make up the example. Yesterday we were optimizing the sound of our Wisdoms. The processor suggested certain speaker distance and trim for each channel. We then played a song and one person said: "her voice is supposed to come out of the center not to the left." I thought, how do we know for real? We changed the trim and distance and now the voice does come out in the middle. I am just waiting for the day for someone else to walk in and say it is supposed to come out of the left .
How do you back that out? And how do you know your system is not compressing the dynamics?That would get pretty boring pretty quickly. I don’t want those types of standards. Where I think recording is broken is where engineers are forced to hammer recordings to 0VU so nothing has any dynamic range anymore.
Look at video. I can put a test signal and measure precisely if the color is off or not. After that, if you want your colors more red, you can. But we all know then that we have too much red.
If the magic button existed and the recording sounded terrible we would also have a great recourse regarding the original producer. Today, there is no way you can make a complaint like that stick because we never know if what we hear in our system is right or not.
We don't have to boil the ocean as you say . Simple things like measured response of the room using a standard Mic. I can them measure my room and a smart processor can then attempt to match those two curves.That’s where I would like to see some standards imposed, but even that would be tricky. It might be helpful if every recording had a couple of paragraphs written by the recording engineer describing what you should hear based on how he made the recording. And if the engineer was forced by the recording label to make a loud recording with no dynamic range, he should be able to come out and say he knew better, but he did what he was told.