In Reply to: Digital vs. Vinyl climaxes posted by Robert C. Lang on January 2, 2007 at 14:02:26:
*** You can *hear* the compression on many vinyl recording. All one has to do is look at the vinyl itself; in non-audiophile recordings it is easy to see the compression of the grooves during the loudest pages. ***Can you elaborate on how you can distinguish the use of compression by looking at the grooves?
I've done quite a lot of transfers of LPs to digital, and so far I have not been able to discern a relationship between dynamics and how the grooves look.
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- Vinyl compression - Christine Tham 15:14:18 01/02/07 (22)
- Re: Vinyl compression - Robert C. Lang 10:22:15 01/03/07 (2)
- Re: Vinyl compression - Christine Tham 16:09:30 01/03/07 (1)
- Re: Vinyl compression - Michael Bishop 14:18:19 01/25/07 (0)
- It's in the grooves - Robert C. Lang 16:01:56 01/02/07 (18)
- Re: It's in the grooves - Christine Tham 17:28:52 01/02/07 (17)
- Re: It's in the grooves - Robert C. Lang 20:07:19 01/02/07 (12)
- Re: It's in the grooves - Christine Tham 22:18:21 01/02/07 (11)
- Mastering with vari-pitch - Michael Bishop 08:38:34 01/25/07 (3)
- A question if I could - Ted Smith 11:17:28 01/25/07 (2)
- Small correction - Ted Smith 10:34:56 01/03/07 (6)
- Re: Small correction - graemme 17:52:24 01/15/07 (0)
- Thanks - I did remember previous discussions (which you have linked to below) - Christine Tham 16:20:29 01/03/07 (2)
- You are contradicting yourself here Christine. - Ozzie 09:55:02 01/08/07 (1)
- It's a common recording technique, popularised in the 80s - Christine Tham 18:32:50 01/08/07 (0)
- Small correction: 'soft clip' is at -6dB not +6dB (nt) - Frank.. 12:41:33 01/03/07 (1)
- The DSD definition of 0dBFS is -6dB from the max representable... - Ted Smith 13:14:54 01/03/07 (0)
- Ugh, ugh.... - Penguin 18:12:06 01/02/07 (3)
- Actually it's a lot more confusing than that ... - Christine Tham 18:26:49 01/02/07 (2)
- I just want to make sure we do not mix up the two types of compressions... - Penguin 20:41:56 01/02/07 (1)
- Well, I don't think anyone was "mixing it up" but thanks for the concern (nt) - Christine Tham 22:21:23 01/02/07 (0)