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Re: Old vinyl

From: Charlie
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Remote Name: 216.40.210.147
Date: 11-Oct-2002
Time: 08:15 AM

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Go back it's a trap! These original recordings were mixed to sound good on an AM car radio speaker! It is impossible to improve on perfection, meaning stuff that was mass produced on vinyl is only gonna sound right on vinyl..and the old style speaker systems of the day(no tweeters to reproduce the hiss and hum that went along with analog recorders). Randy D brought me a box set for my birthday, which has been a great comfort to me as of late, and Roy sent stuff that was recorded live that sounds better,tone quality wise, than some of the old recordings...hey the recording equipment has just improved that much in the last forty years..a PILE of money was spent to create the CDs sold here on this site and without you spending close to fivehundred thousand dollars building a studio ya ain't gonna get no better! You might however want to drive to your local WalMart and pick up a hundred dollar sound card, that comes with software to create MP3 files within your computer, and a set of Altec Lansing speakers, same place, not the expensive ones the forty dollar ones...these are the closest thing I've heard to the old speakers in the studios where some of these things were originaly recorded, yup, forty bucks don't tell Nashville, ya need at least 128megs of ram to operate some of these programs. The reason these CDs vary from song to song is not because of the process used to transfer them from vinyl to digital..it's because they were recorded over the years in studios that suck compared to the digital domain, in as much as the "quality" of the sound(tone-wise)...the old four track machine Mabel Joy was recorded on was the best available at that time..and ya don't get no better than Mickey Newbury..but even if ya had the original four track master tape, it would still sound thin compared to say the stuff ~Mick~ did on the new digital recorders...sorry...by creating MP3 files and putting up with the STEEP learning curve that goes along with the digital programs..eventualy(from the CDs and records ya already got) ya can learn to change wave forms and isolate different tones and noise, that was recorded along with the music in the old days, and heres another trick, go to Google and type in N-track studio and download a free 32-track studio and then bump about twenty four tracks,each one is stereo, of the two mono or stereo tracks ya got on all your old records and man then ya got FAT..good luck..ps once ya got MP3 files of your old records, come frome the line out of your sound card to the line in of your old equipment and turn it uppppp........ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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