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In Reply to: RE: In honor of Rudy Van Gelder - did you know he was a vinyl heretic posted by teenage diplomat on August 26, 2016 at 09:39:45:
JR: What are your feelings on digital versus analog?
RVG: The linear storage of digital information is idealized. It can be perfect. It can never be perfect in analog because you cannot reproduce the varying voltages through the different translations from one medium to another. You go from sound to a microphone to a stylus cutting a groove. Then you have to play that back from another stylus wiggling in a groove, and then translate it back to voltage. The biggest distorter is the LP itself. I've made thousands of LP masters. I used to make 17 a day, with two lathes going simultaneously, and I'm glad to see the LP go. As far as I'm concerned, good riddance. It was a constant battle to try to make that music sound the way it should. It was never any good. And if people don't like what they hear in digital, they should blame the engineer who did it. Blame the mastering house. Blame the mixing engineer. That's why some digital recordings sound terrible, and I'm not denying that they do, but don't blame the medium.
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Follow Ups
- funny ain't it - Penguin 12:16:02 08/27/16 (1)
- Let's blame Rudy - richardl 13:44:13 08/27/16 (0)