Posted on 07/04/2017 7:56:12 AM PDT by Logicbox
Did you know research shows that an incredible 45% of music lovers have not felt comfortable asking for advice in a record store while 25% have chickened out entirely asking for a particular artist or record in a record store because they didn't feel it was cool enough and might be judged?
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I think of it as sounds that are filtered out of the mix used to create the vinyl stamper. I have snapseed on my phone/camera. I pretty much always tend to add “warmth” to my photos. I shoot a lot of the woods around my home and somehow it makes the woods look more natural. But my adding the warmth, though it makes the photo more pleasing to me, technically, I’m changing the raw colors that were faithfully picked up by the digital camera.
I think the same thing is going on with vinyl. It’s less realistic, but more pleasing.
I say that as a musician that listens to a lot of live music in small venues. I hi-fi never does all that good of a job until you get into tens of thousands of dollars, which I certainly can’t afford. So I like the “warmth” and added experiences vinyl gives me, as opposed to the simple reproduction of music that digital gives.
I wore out two cassettes and bought the CD twice of The Cure Standing on the Beach. I never heard it on vinyl and I believe vinyl for most classic albums sound far superior even with pops and hiss.
Bump
Years ago, when I lived in Southern California, there was an article in the Los Angeles Daily News (published in the San Fernando Valley) about a guy who worked in the sound department of one of the major movie/television studios.
He owned 100,000 vinyl record albums, and had them all in his rented home in Santa Monica.
The volume of records were so heavy that the floors were sagging.
That must have been an amazing collection, but I doubt if his landlord was pleased.
Personally, I have 1,000 - 2,000 vinyl albums.
Music is an aesthetic pursuit. If a given method of capturing that music is more pleasing then it is superior, seems simple to me. But, reality for the vast majority of music is digital due to considerations other than purely aesthetic.
Yeah, it’s funny when you think about why they were originally called LP’s. They don’t compare to a digital library. And once you build up your collection, they can get rather heavy. :)
We moved to a relatively small house in rural KY. I actually rotate my collection between the shed and the house. Typically, only a couple hundred are in the house at any given time. Keeps my wife happy.
I have five Peaches crates full. Never bothered to count them but they’re pretty heavy.
True. And also, most people won’t notice the difference, other than the surface noise. And for any public performance of pre-recorded music, the only reason for using vinyl is to ensure the crowd knows it, adding a certain retro charm to what they are listening to.
I have three turntables. One of them is an Audio Technica clone of the Technics 1200 that has a built in phono pre-amp. I can use it to play music during the breaks for my bands. People get a kick out of it.
vinyl recordings are horrible. No highs, no lows, distortion with wear, phase shift from speed shifts, horrible pops and crackles.
They sounds ‘mellow’. Well that’s because it’s mush.
I have a recording studio in a spare room. Very few working musicians I know like vinyl.
Time for Mr. Atkinson to sell another grammophone...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSINO6MKtco&t=6s
It is a brutal business for the artists. You make no money from sales - most everyone steals it. You make no money from touring unless you are a REALLY big act. And some of us don’t want to tour.
So we record at home, release them on Amazon,iTunes, and CDBaby and don’t make enough to pay for the equipment.
Bkmrk.
Ralph’s Records sells it all from vinyl, to tapes, to CDs.
Me, too! They are even heavier than the vinyls!
We are in the middle of a resurgence of interest in vynal. I would recommend recording everything you have to a lossless format like flac. Do NOT record to mp3. Then sell it all. It is truely a good time for it. I suspect that this interest may well wane, so it is probably the best time to extract your equity in it.
Most modern popular music is mixed according to how people listen to music today. Most people listen while also doing something else through earbuds or crap computer speakers or in the car. And they listen to it a song at a time, not albums. Everyone will sit through a 2 hour movie, not many will sit and listen to all of a 45 minute album. So most music gets mixed to be loud and in your face, so that one song you hear pops and gets noticed. The bands that record/mix music with vinyl in mind also sound really good on CDs.
I think the vinyl resurgence is great, although I haven’t switched from CDs.
Freegards
Real books are also regaining popularity. Fact is, regarding entertainment, the culture seems to be experiencing a bit of a backlash against “digital perfection”.
An exception would be television and photography, for the simple reasons of cost and dramatic quality improvement.
i.e. if the pinacle of the needle in groove technology was the 78 rpm record, this comeback would not be happening.
True, but vinyl will never have more than a small audience of audiophiles and trendy hipsters. It's not going to save the music industry and return it to the heady days of pre-2001 where everyone got rich.
Vinyl is in my opinion superior for most musical listening but that doesn’t make it convenient for the majority of listening opportunities, true.
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