Muff's Modules & More

Gordon Cole · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:04 am Post subject:

I'm over it. Just finally got the chance to record/digitize some vinyl. Used a new but slightly broken in, good quality needle, with the table set up properly, and the 12"s were never played before.

End result? It sounds worse and muddier than the 320 mp3 I had of the same track. Less high end and the stereo field is not as wide.

Seriously, if I can help it I'm never buying a record again. Or a cd. Completely sold on downloads of wavs and looking forward to pluggin into the future virtual tactile world and thumbing through my crates.

wetterberg · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 4:42 am Post subject:

Gregor Samsa · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 1:39 am Post subject:

Ranxerox · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:10 am Post subject:

CDs don't have as much cred or ritual about them as vinyl, but they generally sound better (more information for the ears at least) and are more convenient.

MP3s are the most convenient of all, but probably the least credible because they reduce music listening to a mundane, unceremonious act of anonymous data-consumption.

None of them are perfect.

tuj · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:37 am Post subject:

I think most people forget that vinyl is really all about the RIAA preamp EQ curve that gets applied to the signal. That bass boosting curve is what gives some of the richness that people crave about vinyl. Plus there is a bit of high-end loss. Its very interesting to compare cuts at 33 and 45 to hear the differing qualities in the bass and high-end. I notice a lot more people cutting at 45 to get higher sound quality and tighter bass.

nickciontea · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:28 am Post subject:

45 ftw

fiero · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 1:59 pm Post subject:

i like vynil i enjoy playing once in a while some records , but last time i bought one was about 4 years ago,lately i enjoy finding new music on youtube.
on the other hand listening classical music i think is better to listen the live performance in a proper room with proper musicians than listening classical music on vynil or cd or mp3's , also is more fun to listen or electronic music in a big club than in your room , so i guess for me all of them are important it just depens my mood and where i'm at.

construct09 · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:10 am Post subject:

Honestly, I think cassettes are my favourite format

Babaluma · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:52 am Post subject:

these days my favourite format is 24/96 FLAC files. smile

4utonomy · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:06 am Post subject:

toppobrillo · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:12 am Post subject:

thats really awesome to 're-discover' your record collection after 10 years! I had a similar experience after 5 years moving to california with nothing. mostly excited about home-recording cassettes tho grin

Babaluma · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:49 am Post subject:

sduck · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:54 am Post subject:

zombi thread is not dead and can not be killed

toppobrillo · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:21 am Post subject:

"..people need to hear snaps and pops and that shit" hihi

Rymf · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:17 pm Post subject:

CF3 · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:13 pm Post subject:

As a DJ of 20+ years with a vinyl collection that could easily fill a storage space and then some... I'm sooo over it at this point. If I was a kid starting out nowadays I definitely would not go vinyl. First off where you gonna buy this vinyl from? Not too many legit spots left. Not to mention records are EXPENSIVE. Thats how you end up with a shit ton of records... you buy a 4 song EP. for just the one song you like and before you know it you've got a friggin mountain plastic in your studio. I still buy records, although be it a small amount JUST for sampling purposes. DJ stuff?, NO WAY. It took me years to finally take the digital plunge, but once I did.. I wondered WTF took me so long? I fuckin love Beatport. I can browse at my leisure and buy only what want. They even make suggestions customized just for me hyper

. Vinyl will always have a place. But its more of a nostalgia item and a luxury at this point. The technology is such now that it's almost impossible to tell the difference. And the crowd sure as hell can't tell that's for sure.(stuff like proper gain control is WAY more important)

ps. A young protege of mine recently got into DJing... it took me MONTHS to talk him out of going the vinyl/SL1200 route. He had it in his mind that only "real DJ's" used records.... lol

(he's been watchin too much TV) All the "real DJ's"(you know the guys making 1000's a dollars a night touring all over the world) moved on years ago. Trying lugging a 50lb. record case around for a week. hihi

Juxwl · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:02 pm Post subject:

My hearing sucks, so cd's are fine with me. Plus, I drive 5-6 hours a week, so vinyl isn't practical. Plus, plus, vinyl has become annoyingly trendy the last couple years and driven the price of it up to 2-3 times what the same cd costs. I do like singles, though.

richard · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:32 pm Post subject:

fuck me, the OP changed sides lol

24/96 might sound "better" but I wonder if you really sit there all the way through the album?

really?

Babaluma · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:43 am Post subject:

absolutely, 100% yes. lol

and only about 1% of my listening is 24/96, it's mainly 16/44 flac. and i prefer that to vinyl now too!