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In Reply to: RE: In honor of Rudy Van Gelder posted by vinyl survivor on August 26, 2016 at 08:06:42
Read the interview. Close to the end, RVG says he is happy to see vinyl go as it was both inaccurate and a bitch to work with. To make things worse, he applauds digital, and says if it doesn't sound good it's the fault of the folks doing the work, not the medium itself. Egads! What is such heresy doing on VA? Moderator! Moderator! ;)
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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.
dee
;-D
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
quote by Kurt Vonnegut
His digital remasters are awful. The originals and analogue copies are fine. Sort of what happened to to the Mercury Living Presence recordings when they hit digital.
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