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Subject:
>> Re: OT That 'sizzle sound' of Mp3s
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From:
>> Miko Biffle <
biffoz@gmail.com>
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Date:
>> Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:29:10 -0700
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>> To:
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Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
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>> I can listen to Zep, Sabbath and many
others on vinyl and feel the bass is adequate (for the day)—I just
don't find Redding's bass that satisfying. Mitch Mitchell OTOH ranks
right up there with Bonham in my book! -m
One more point - and not
to beat on this too much more...
Your comparison of Experience
to Zeppelin sonics may well include Zep tracks recorded ten years
after Jimi's passing. IIRC alot changed in that time.
Again, I
jumped into this discussion because it was an eye-opener that sonics
will date all recordings to a certain degree. In the early days it was
frequency spectrum limitations, then low-end content, then hiss, wow
and flutter, and psycho-acoustic aspects (both positive and negative)
of analog distortion.
Then we had digital artifacts associated
with early CD mixes and codecs, inadvertent data truncation to 16 bits
and I suppose we'll always digital distortion and artifacts from data
compression to deal with....
Of course this is before they
SMASH the signal with a compressor effectively eliminating all
dynamics in the program material.
Then there are the clowns
that add these aspects ON PURPOSE, probably just to annoy me. YA CALL
THAT MUSIC???!
Dan Ash
White Plains,
NY