[Heeplist] Analog music recording

[Igor Shveitser]

 I agree with Shawn, those things really rock while the cyber ones simply emulate and most of the tiome not very convincingly.
Cheers, Igor


Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:57:18 -0400 от Bob Winward <uriahheep at comcast.net>:
>I saw the movie "Water boy" I know what they eat down there in Louisiana!!
>:-)
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>On 7/26/14 12:12 PM, "Shawn Mctopy" < shawn.mctopy at selu.edu > wrote:
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>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
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