http://famicoman.com/2009/06/17/vinyl-a-new-perspective/ All in the Famicom Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://famicoman.com/2009/06/17/vinyl-a-new-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Vinyl « ethanmullins.com Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:24:10 +0000 http://famicoman.com/?p=83#comment-42 [...] recently my friend Famicoman, wrote about his collection and current perspective of vinyl records. Reading his blog post, it reminded me of a time before I was immensly engrossed with computers. A [...] [...] recently my friend Famicoman, wrote about his collection and current perspective of vinyl records. Reading his blog post, it reminded me of a time before I was immensly engrossed with computers. A [...]

]]> http://famicoman.com/2009/06/17/vinyl-a-new-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Ion Farmer Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:24:37 +0000 http://famicoman.com/?p=83#comment-12 Right-on! It is the mastering and over-wrought production that annoys me about most modern releases. They master the life right out of the music. And there's good stuff in that music that gives it character, like hearing Duane Allman's breathing on "Little Martha" or Bonzo's squeaky drum pedal on "Since I've Been Loving You". I think the focus in the vinyl era was either to treat you to a sonic experience or make you feel that you were with the band during the recording. But maybe again there's also the technology factor. In the day, a record was mastered to play on one piece of equipment, the home Hi-Fi, whose speakers were enevitably built with an equalization bias to make the stereo "sound good". There was a built in standard in the production. Now, there are a variety of formats a digitized piece of music may be played on, with many different sound characteristics present, so there is a loss of objectivity from the production side as they try to gain maximum sonic density from the studio side. Right-on! It is the mastering and over-wrought production that annoys me about most modern releases. They master the life right out of the music. And there’s good stuff in that music that gives it character, like hearing Duane Allman’s breathing on “Little Martha” or Bonzo’s squeaky drum pedal on “Since I’ve Been Loving You”. I think the focus in the vinyl era was either to treat you to a sonic experience or make you feel that you were with the band during the recording. But maybe again there’s also the technology factor. In the day, a record was mastered to play on one piece of equipment, the home Hi-Fi, whose speakers were enevitably built with an equalization bias to make the stereo “sound good”. There was a built in standard in the production. Now, there are a variety of formats a digitized piece of music may be played on, with many different sound characteristics present, so there is a loss of objectivity from the production side as they try to gain maximum sonic density from the studio side.

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