[Heeplist] Analog music recording

[Bob Winward]

A perfect description of analog!


On 7/26/14 4:11 PM, "Shawn Mctopy" <shawn.mctopy at selu.edu> wrote:

> Crawfish, Jambalaya, Gumbo, Turtle & Alligator Sauce Piquant!
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> *LOL ...!*
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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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