Yet another Vinyl vs. CD/Digital debate

[Hartmut Noack]

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Dave Ricketzz schrieb:
> I think that had more to do with chemistry than electronics.  I can't believe you're belittling digital audio on this particular list.

Digital audio is either a affordable replacement of gear, only few can
hope to raise the money to get their hands on or a tool to create new
sounds in a special way. 24/96 is quite OK for recording and as it is
cheap it allows everybody to record music in good quality.This is
entirely a good thing - it gives artists freedom from the need to make
lots of money just to pay the bills for recordings. It allows you to
work permanently on the whole process of music production with your own
gear without the need to finish an album within 10 days.

But the gear does not make the music and it cannot make halfhearted
players sound powerfull. YES! even though thats what they promise ;-)


Audio software can be a good musical instrument also and help you to
compose music. Still its up to the musician, to find the right sounds
and to write the right notes...


To me the combination of affordable digital equipment and free software
is revolutionary and I don't intend to belittle that :-)


> 
> Sean Corbett <seanbutnotheard at gmail.com> wrote:  > 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 called outdated today.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.
> 
> And where were your fancy new-fangled flying faders when Pink Floyd
> mixed down Dark Side of the Moon? Nowhere to be seen. They did it
> old-school, with each member of the band standing around the mixing
> console, each with several fingers full of faders, and mixed it on the
> fly. One of the last great recordings to be mixed this way. Not a
> one or a zero anywhere to be found, and it's one of the most
> incredible records ever made.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 

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