Post by Bigman80 on May 3, 2022 10:51:36 GMT
And I don't want to 🙂
Start thinking about it as a bastardisation of the original recording, as fundamentally that's what it is.
Had a mate round, he ;s older than me still thinks vinyl is 'the best'. We were listening to 'LA Woman'. He says 'This sounds much cleaner than my LP. is it a remaster?' Nope, it's transcribed from the original master tape by the original engineer. You're not getting closer to the studio than that.
If your band put out a recording and everyone was listening to a bastardised version of it would you be happy about that?
Not sure this agrees:
"This is how it generally works at my own, pretty typical, facility. We run the mastering processing through the analogue chain, gain-staging so that the final capture is a louder but, as yet, unlimited version of the master. To this we can subsequently add level and required limiting. In the simplest scenario, then, this as-yet unlimited version can serve as the vinyl master, and a different version, which has had gain added, becomes the digital master. This works best when the primary focus is the vinyl, as the louder digital version benefits from the preserved dynamics in the vinyl master"
Either way, I am not convinced that vinyl is the devil. Yes it's very expensive, stupidly so, but I am either yet to hear a DAC that convinces me digital is king, or can afford the right DAC to prove this with.
I would happily relinquish the financial burden of vinyl, but only if something proved to be superior.
So, for fun, i could get around £7.5k for my vinyl rig.....what dac. Shall we start a thread? Yeah, i'll do it.