sounds nothing like the mp3s ive been listening to for so long. ditto a lot of modern dance music. i cant always tell if its better or worse. maybe thats to do with most vinyl being mastered from digital (or FOR digital playback), not analogue, but sometimes it actually sounds poor, or not special enough to merit buying the record (the kuedo album didnt seem to sound quite as good as the cd, which was dissapointing). or maybe my ears have just been ruined/too acclimatised to shitty mp3s. i actually had the daft punk RAM album (before selling it on), and was surprised at how for such an old-school-aspiring album, i actually preferred hearing it on mp3 than the vinyl.
AIUI "sequencing" in that sense refers to controlling the machines, not to recording and arranging the audio coming out of them. I'd guess that Back In The Day that was mainly done on tape.But this got me to thinking about the whole digital vs analogue production thing. Even if a track from twenty years ago was made using hardware- 303s 808s etc- would it not be common for all this to be sequenced (arranged?) on an Amiga/ Commodore 64?
And does handing a CD of a finished track a cutting house mean it will come out sounding different than if it was from a DAT tape.
Gives me jokes when people say vinyl sales are increasing when record shops and distributors are closing.
Kenny Dope is fairly emphatic about cutting vinyl from tape and tape only. That is the kind of thing people - and people who have the resources - always say and there are no doubt a thousand exceptions. It's all fairly subjective but I wouldn't be surprised if there is something to it. I have the LV LP - which I only got recently - on here in the background and it sounds 100 times better than it did the two years I was playing it on mp3. Every bit of it sounds better and it's not even going through the best of mixer or sound system. Likewise a Chez Damier tune from 1993 I got last week sounds phatter than ever before. One probably came from tape twenty years ago and other probably didn't but both sound a feel better on wax. Suppose there is a lot more to it though. You hear about the whole process of getting a tune to record, which still exists today, and one guy along that chain does it different to the same guy on another chain. Theo and people talk about about this engineer and that guy disappearing and the craft dying with them but I don't buy all of it.
Says here that North America's biggest plant is planning to expand. That could just be to meet the smaller ones who have disappeared or been gobbled up though. At the same time we see ST Holdings slimming down with a few vague statements about ethos. That could be sign that they are in healthy enough position to do so but I would be surprised if anyone is out the woods tbh.
i bought dj rashads rollin on vinyl, and it sounds nothing like the mp3s ive been listening to for so long
Yeah, totally agree on that. I mean, from his point of view I can see why he's doing it and I'm sure he's having fun but it doesn't interest me especially and I don't take it as a sign of a healthy vinyl revival. Also, that latest one has about ten different gimmicks, I think it would be cooler if he just picked one good one for each record, seems a bit try hard to me."Oh and I do take exception to what Jack White's up to. He's perpetuating the idea that vinyl is inherently a luxury item. Records should be accessible to young people who are just getting into music."
I think you have to accept that vinyl is in no way a 'basic format' at this point.
It's a premium item for people with more money than they need