[Heeplist] Analog music recording

[Shawn Mctopy]

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On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Bob Winward <uriahheep at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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