One of the bits is a computer singing "Daisy".
Posted on 01/24/2013 8:38:39 PM PST by null and void
3-D Printer Ping
Cool idea if you have a good original.
I wonder how much of the original signal is lost in the digital to analog conversion?
Its probably simpler and better to just reissue as a digital from the analog master.
I think vinyl sounds great when its fresh, but this is probably a goofy idea.
I don’t know about anyone else, but this kind of stuff just blows my mind.
I used one of these 3-D printers to make me a copy of a CD once...
I next loaded it with more ‘stuff’ and made a 3-D copy of a rice cake.
Tasted about the same.
I had no idea! Do you have to have a pristine master to do this?
But I ate it!
One of the bits is a computer singing "Daisy".
Another use of this 3D tech: synthetic “beef” via 3D printing...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20972018
Too weird for me!
I had that record, too!
Hear a 3D-Printed Record Play a Surreal Version of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and Joy Division
One of them has to do with distortion. Digital Distortion and Analog Distortion sound different because of two basic factors. When tubes in amps distort you get harmonics that are more pleasing to the ear, and tubes gradually distort wherein digital signal has whats called a "hard knee" it is clean until that level is reached then it distorts quickly.
The other reason Analog sounds better is because of info captured during the recording process. Analog captures whatever the mic is capable of capturing as long as the analog recorder can lay down that signal to the physical media. Digital captures only part of what the mic gets BUT that is because of the limiting factor of how the digital recorder is constructed. Digital Media is fast becoming capable of holding the same amount of information analog media holds and as we get farther along in digital recorder equipment design that factor of limitation is becoming less of a problem.
The bottom line is digital takes a messy analog signal and makes it sterile and the pleasing part of a recording resides in that messy part that digital cleans up. But as technology advances, digital is becoming more and more capable of recreating that messy part we love to hear.
Natural sound is a Gift from God, and yes, many a Master leant an ear and mind to the study of it.
Pachabell’s Canon in D is simplistic if you to not hear this.
Truly, with the sample rates we have now in Digital it is getting better.
Sadly, now my ears are shot. LOL
Sounds like Hammered Dog S***!
What is the point of destroying an Audio Technica stylus on this? LOL!!
I could make a better facsimile with a fork on pizza dough while drinking copious amounts of lambrusco. LOL
My most destroyed Party albums sound a million times better than that.
Holy Crap!
I think you need to read the entire article. It's about the EXERCISE of restoring one-of-a-kind damaged recordings and how with better resolution in the near future full quality restoration of damaged an unusual recorded samples will be possible.
I just think converting analog to digital to analog again will result in a loss.
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