Re: Beer Budget CD Release Strategy as an Alternative to The Way It's Normally Done

["L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

Hey Kevin i am all for that dont get me wrong, but it has to sound better 
than the old stuff Playing some of the CDs i have sometimes give me 
headaches and i feel saturated by them after a while, and thats not 
because ive gotten old,some of that stuff is just way compressed loud and 
cold sounding to my ears,i am even starting to get tired of that on your 
face voice,i kind of like that 60´s voice behind a dark reverb again, 
while all the instruments are up front and dry and you can hear that 
plunky bass...in fact i am recording a remake of dazed and confused,the 
original Jake Holmes but with a brazilian groove,and i am trying to nail 
that sound just for the fun of it which it aint easy(if anybody is 
interested in listening to it i can put it up)
then on the MP3 side some of it sounds a bit muddy,i dont own a record 
player anymore i have all the hype, u know the ipods etc. but when i go to 
a friends house who has a record player and who has an amazing collection 
of very well kept records we turn it up loud and i can listen comfortably 
to the music for hours, and his stereo system is similar to mine!
But maybe it is the romantic elegant spinning black plate with its cool 
covers which you can look at and read while the music is playing...
or maybe the beer;-)
Luis



> 
> There is a part of me that wants to look back on the old
> days with affection and nostalgia, however I don't.
> 
> I will take a digital recording environment over tape and
> vinyl any time.
> 
> -- Kevin
> 
> Quoting "L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>:
> 
> > It doesnt really surprise me,i just saw on TV that 78s
> are going to  be re-released as well!
> > Tape still rules (unless you go back further to beat
> tape,to those  78´s and the magic needle!;-)
> > But u know,i read somewhere that since the 80´s the
> whole sound  quality has gone down and the whole
> digitalizing concept has bee  implanted in our heads,and the
> irony of the whole thing is that  records did sound better
> than all the junk today.Even all that  recording equipment
> that was digitalized between 1980 is being  redigitalized
> because it wasnt even at consumer level  electronics.Who
> made the decision that it was good enoguh,certainly  not
> musicians!
> > The reason why studios started using pro tools is
> mostly because of  the editing capabilities and not the
> quality of sound,and because  the converters began to get
> good enough to actually use them.You  cant blame people for
> not buying CDs anymore because they arent as  valuable as
> records were, and they cost more.Records simply sounded 
> better,a CD or MP3 is like taking a picture fo the real
> thing just  like a lot of this virtual craze.The truth of
> the matter is probably  that quality has gone bad and now
> people dont want to pay for it,  and not just records!
> > I heard there are already plans to finally bring out
> hi-resolution  vinyl,high resolution CDs and even hi-res
> files,so all those mp3  records you are buying through
> i-tunes might already be outdated.
> > 
> > www.myspace.com/luisangulocom
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Wed, 1/7/09, Stefan Tiedje
> <stefantiedje@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Stefan Tiedje
> <stefantiedje@googlemail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: Beer Budget CD Release Strategy  as
> an Alternative to  The Way It's Normally Done
> >> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> >> Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 11:41 PM
> >> Krispen Hartung schrieb:
> >> > But then again, I just saw an article that
> vinyl sales
> >> are up, and CD sales down! Crazy. Wouldn't
> that be cool
> >> if we went back to vinyl. I would love to have
> that much
> >> space for artwork, etc.
> >> 
> >> Art Simon schrieb:
> >> > Is anyone out there doing vinyl releases?
> What would
> >> it take to do a
> >> > small vinyl production run?
> >> 
> >> http://www.vinyl-on-demand.com/
> >> You'd just need some dj friends to buy them
> (It's
> >> not cheap at all...)
> >> 
> >> Stefan
> >> 
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