Can't recall where I raised this issue, but here' s'more evidence that it really is happening.
Read on...
Can't recall where I raised this issue, but here' s'more evidence that it really is happening.
Read on...
So the way to combat illegal downloading is to take the mp3's, stick 'em on a cd and ask money for it?
There are also rumours that some of the vinyl pressings are indeed mastered from mp3 files. Whether that is true or not, i don't know. But what i do know, is that some of the remastered CD's are not sourced from the original master tapes (whatever format it may be), but are just tweaked copies of the previous CD's.
What is sure, is that the record labels are trying to make as much profit as possible.
It's funny - my first thought was "why would a label go to all the trouble of making a vinyl reissue and cut corners on the sound like that?" But of course, I would have thought the same thing about a CD reissue in the 80s, and obviously a lot of weird stuff went on with CD reissues then and now.
Still, vinyl mastered from MP3s is warmer than CDs mastered from MP3s.
Are cassettes warmer than eight track?
But is everything warm old?
8-track is, in theory, better than cassette, because they both have the same track width but 8-track ran at 3 1/2 ips, twice as fast as cassette which would be a sound advantage were it not undermined by the catastrophic mechanical defects of the 8-track system.
(Read aloud in the Comic Book Guy voice )
"End of times" read in Ned Flander's voice.
I've had artists send me albums to be mastered, I look at the file they've sent and it's a 256kbps mp3. I've even had someone send me a multitrack file to mix and the tracks were all mp3s. So imagine - they are starting with an mp3, then after I send them the master (at least that's in a non-lossy format) they immediately make an mp3 from it and that's what gets heard. So it's been mp3 encoded two times. Egads.
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Well, let's say some record labels. Good folks like Panegryic/DGM, Cuneiform, MoonJune, Abstract Logix, ECM Records, Pirouet' Hatology, HighNote, Esoteric and others are doing their best to provide you with the best sounding music out there. Let's not whitewash everyone with the seem broad brushstroke, huh guys?
Well, the reason for bad sounding CDs in the 80s was largely because analog to digital conversion was in its relative infancy, and so there were a lot of mistakes made (as great as the music is, Ry Cooder's Bop Til You Drop and Borderline Soind awful - brittle to the point that it feels like the whole thing is doing to shatter if someone breathes on it) that have been corrected now that better A>D exists. Of course that doesn't account for poor mastering (over-compression, etc), but my feeling today is that if a CD made today cannot sound as good as vinyl, then something is being done wrong. Or, at the very least, high res versions of the music.....
I am sure my captain beefheart "lick my decals off" on vinyl is one of those sourced from MP3... it sounds worse than the CD.
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