Yet another Vinyl vs. CD/Digital debate

[Christopher Stamper]

Well, I'm not sure about EQ. Prob they did.

(oh, it was a analog recording btw... Maybe vinyl?)

 :-)

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Dave Ricketzz <boontooz at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Compressors can be quite musical;  they make a performance easier to hear
> in many cases.  Without a compressor/limiter your RMS is quite low vs peaks
> and your SNR suffers.  Part of the mastering process is to judiciously apply
> electronic magic here and there.  Are you saying this person didn't
> equalize?
>
>
> *Christopher Stamper <christopherstamper at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> I once had a professionally mastered CD. On the CD, it proudly stated
> something like this:
>
> "Mastered by *****. Audio signal not passed through any processing device,
> such as a compressor, at any point in the production or mastering of this
> disc."
>
> Amazing isn't it? :-)
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Hartmut Noack <zettberlin at linuxuse.de>
> wrote:
>
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> > D. Michael McIntyre schrieb:
> > > On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Karlheinz Noise wrote:
> > >> And that's assuming modern artists are interested at all. The future
> > of
> > >> music resides in bedroom musicians. How many of them want to pay
> > $2000 just
> > >> to have someone master their mixes, when they can do a crappy job
> > with
> > >> their LADSPA plugins (or cracked VST's) for free?
> > >>
> > >> I know I don't.
> > >
> > > Hear hear!  Three cheers for the crappy free mixing job!  It's crappy,
> > but
> > > it's FREE!
> >
> >
> > Yeahhh! hooray to those who value their fun and freedom higher than so
> > called "standards" made up by people who need a reason to charge big
> > money for helping to meet them.
> >
> > "Oh yes, people! We invested sooo much for our professional hi-end
> > equipment - there must be a reason we have spent all the money. Thus we
> > and we only can make a good sounding record!"
> >
> >
> > 90% of the best sounding records are made with equipment that would be
> > called outdated today. Where were the realtime-vsts as Todd Runtgren
> > made "Wave" with the Patti Smith Group? What about Laurie Andersons "Big
> > Science? what about The Stooges? Get the record (I mean the real thing
> > in black 12"), listen to "1969", "No Fun" or "We will fall" and you know
> > how the sound of a record can help to make music a classic.
> >
> > Plus: set everything else aside there are 2 things that make a good
> > record:
> >
> > 1.) good, dedicated musicians.
> > 2.) enough time to do the right thing and to weed out the 2nd-best of
> > moments.
> >
> > With these 2 ingrediences you can record a classic and even a top-20-hit
> > with equipment for not much more then 1000 Euros.
> > And with free software only.
> >
> >
> > I mean it ;-)
> >
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