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In Reply to: That thesis is flawed. posted by Rick W on May 9, 2017 at 13:04:09:
Hmm, we seem to be talking past each other. Let me try to boil down what I'm getting at:One way or another, the production team (the musicians, engineers, producers, whathaveyou) finishes the work on the album. The deliverable of their effort is the so-called 'master tape'.
It don't matter for the purposes of this discussion how did the team get to the point of holding the final master tape in their hands. Maybe they did it all by themselves in one sitting, maybe it took them years of back-and-forth with some super duper fancy chief sweetener of master tapes, maybe it even took them decades of back-and-forth, shipping the tapes across the continent, then shipping them back until that precious moment when they all got satisfied (or ran out of money, or both).
Whatever the case may be, the entire charade occurs UPSTREAM from where our discussion begins. So once that magic tape is good and ready to go, it needs to be packaged for sale. Meaning, somehow the signal that is stored on the tape needs to be magically transported into the vinyl grooves. So the jist of this discussion is: how to do it?
Of course, you need to send it to some alchemy lab. Some mysterious alchemists will be cutting the lacquer while manipulating the EQ, twiddling some knobs. No one knows how are they doing it, but we do know that they specialize in making the grooves sound the same as the signal stored within the magnetic particles on the tape.
So the question is: why would, at that point, the owners of the product want the final deliverable (i.e. the vinyl record) to sound any different than the super precious master tape on which they've already spent untold hours and thousands of dollars? It absolutely doesn't make any sense that at this last, final stage, it would be all left to some bozo alchemists to do whatever they please with it. It would only make sense that the quality control at that stage be adamant that the resulting vinyl grooves produce the sound that is almost exact replica of the sound they hear when playing back the master tape.
So please, let's forget about sweetening and all the other bullshit that may or may not be happening upstream from the delivery of the master tape. I want to focus on how does the master tape, being the 'blueprint' for the vinyl record, transfer its signal into the vinyl grooves?
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- RE: That thesis is flawed. - magiccarpetride 15:01:58 05/09/17 (1)
- RE: That thesis is flawed. - Rick W 18:01:05 05/09/17 (0)
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