Glad you enjoyed it sir! Ive been watching everything I can on these guys the past couple of days. I really like them!

Gone are the days of the "live sound" in recordings... that's sad. Death by technology!

Brew, thanks for sharing. I too really like that sound. And like John, I have always thought something was not right with digital music. I saw an interview with Neil Young (one of my favs) and he has invented a new type of player that makes the Ipod sound like garbage. Dont know the details , I kept dosing off,lol.

A customer is giving me his stereo that He bought in Veitnam while serving. Part of it is an Akia reel to reel tape recorder. Not sure what to do with it but it, and the rest of the equipment are really cool vintage gear. And its free, he just wants to get rid of it.

Jeff C

Jeff - Welcome to the wonderful world of vinyl! Whip out all your old albums and have at them.

In the late-nineties I recorded some stuff for a local New York cable program. When I listened to the playback, it didn't sound like me at all. The engineer had 'digitized' my takes and linked them to some kind of synch/click track that evens out your playing to the computer generated tempo. It made me sound like a damn electronic drum machine. He took all the overtones and sounds that I work hard to get and he literally sterilized my sound and my playing. I got into a huge argument with the guy who was producing the sessions (who was all of 22 years-old) and I tried to explain to him that he was taking the life (live-feel/real drummer) out of the music. Why the hell hire a real drummer and then make him sound like a computerized drum machine? I lost the argument of course and the music went out sounding like there were no live musicians playing on any of the recordings. It sounded sterile, mechanical and had no 'soul.' Like it was all created on a midi.

There is nothing like analog (tape) for recreating a 'live band sound' on a recording. The 'warts,' the little inconsistencies, that the electronic whiz-kids were so diligently scrubbing out of the music is precisely the stuff that makes it sound good... like you're listening to a live band. I have a huge beef with all the reliance on digital this and digital that. It did not make the music better. The life has been taken out of everything. As far as I'm concerned, if you're going to digitize everything anyway, why bother hiring real musicians.

Now that's one of my peeves. Mind Blowi I hope vinyl makes a come-back. I miss hearing the sound of a real band making real music.

Rant over...

John

I have transfered vynal albums to the computer so I can get it on my mp3 player I use in my wood shop, its about the only device that will stand up to the fine dust. Anyway, I swear that those tunes from the old lp's sound better than the ones ripped from a new CD.

Jeff C

In the right hands, digital recording will sound no different than analog. There is much focus on digital gear that recreates the sounds of the older methods. It sounds like you just had an idiot for a producer. Like it or not, digital is not going away. It's all in how you use it. That said, if I could afford it, I would go mostly analog myself.

When stereo came along, mono purists were up in arms.

Stephen

Stephen - Yes! Huge idiot! Wouldn't accept input from anybody other than the engineer who was hell-bent on cleaning up every note with his (then)new digital toys/filters. Every guy that worked those sessions (there were six of us,) complained about how drastically all their parts were altered. It wasn't just me. That little prique took one or two bars of the groove I was playing, and dropped it in/as a patch, anywhere he damn well chose. The repetition of the copies of the same few bars in what was a two-and-a-half minute piece is what made it sound fake/mechanical, like a machine. Not like a live drummer. I'm sure a lot of that 'scrub it clean' mentality was tied to the newness of the technology... playing with new toys. It was like; if the software came with a certain set of filters, they felt obligated to use them. Whether it made any aesthetic sense/contribution, or not. I'm sure they've outgrown a lot of that by now. I haven't been inside a recording studio in 15 years, glad to hear they are 'coming around' to a more musical approach to recording as opposed to a purely technical one. I miss that wall of sound. Bunch of guys interacting live, sounds bouncing off the walls, the band cooking.... nothing like it.

Here's a sample of it from the Master record producer himself, Phil Spector. Phil would pack a bunch of musicians into a studio and mic the room. Listen to how BIG and full the sound is. How 'alive' and immediate it sounds. I wish the sound quality on this clip was better, but it'll do to illustrate my point about a 'live' sound.

Crank it!

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John

WE MUST RETURN TO CALFSKIN! THINK HOW MUCH WE DRUMMERS HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO OUR PLANET'S PROBLEMS BY TURNING TO DRUMHEADS AND DRUM COVERINGS MADE OF PLASTIC AND ALUMINIUM RATHER THAN SKIN AND WOOD! BURN ACRYLIC DRUMS AND THEY PRODUCE CYANIDE GAS! REPENT! REPENT! WE MUST RESTORE BALANCE BACK TO LIFE ON THE PLANET! REAL CRAFTSMEN AND ARTISTS MUST BE PUT BACK TO WORK!

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computers are made out of what? cells phones made out of what? car? medicines? oh what is used to cure calfskins? see a reoccurring pattern here??

Agreed with above comments, And you don't need to yell.

Jeff C,,lol