[Heeplist] Analog music recording

[Bob Winward]

I saw the movie "Water boy" I know what they eat down there in Louisiana!!
:-)


On 7/26/14 12:12 PM, "Shawn Mctopy" <shawn.mctopy at selu.edu> wrote:

> Analog is not only just *1's* and *0's* ... but all of those grey areas in
> between as well. That's where the flavor and spice reside - the musical
> Tabasco Sauce ...* LOL!*
> 
> With analog, a recording can pushed into the red and saturate ... producing
> a nice warm & musical sound and effect.
> 
> Digital distortion/clipping is just plain old nasty sounding!
> 
> 
> Radio tubes (Valves) also have a truly unique, almost magical, way that
> they react when pushed & driven hard.
> 
> 
> I love the sometimes unpredictable nature of analog gizmos, like the
> germanium transistor powered Fuzz-Face or Electro-Harmonix and Sovtek Big
> Muff Pi pedals.
> 
> 
> 
> :)
> 
> *Oh well ...*
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Igor Shveitser <zlenko_iv at mail.ru> wrote:
> 
>>  I do 100% agree with Don on that,   and partially that is the reason for
>> not really loving most of the modern music Heep-related inclusive. The
>> character is different. I think, it was mid 80-s when classic rock was
>> crucially damaged by the way of recording and since then it only gets worse
>> soundwise. However, some albums are ok sounding to me. If we are still
>> talking about modern UH, Pip Williams' job was as close as they could get
>> to quality classic sound. The rest is tolerable, perhaps younger men will
>> even rate it higher than the 70-s LPs - for me it is simply not the case.
>> Modern vinyls make a little sense since everything is digital in studio but
>> I do buy them more willingly - form-factor means something as well as the
>> fact that we aren't limited here to kilobytes or any bytes at all as it is
>> with CDs or mp3s.
>> Cheers, Igor
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Igor Shveytser
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