rediscovered cassette tapes

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fredster":k3d156h1 said:
I agree that mp3s are not the best representation of music, but it's not always the medium. Music today is recorded differently than when cassettes and LPs were the thing. This article is very eye-opening here.


in the past few years i have been sorta disenchanted with recorded music in general. not so much due to the lack of quality musicianship, but just feeling disconnected to the listening experience. i normally seek out recordings that are well produced first, then have amazing musicianship i enjoy.
i also think i'm kinda spoiled by being able to hear, perform, and mix live music several times a week. which you could argue is the purist form of what we are trying to recreate with records, cd, etc.
 
my father was a DJ both private and on the radio all his life, so i literally had a house full of every record you could imagine, until my parents got divorced and one day i come home and the whole house is cleaned out :doh: my mom didnt think i wanted "old records" so she threw them out. 10s of thousands of them :thumbsdown:
 
timbo":5av1paai said:
thegame":5av1paai said:
I listen to MP3s ONLY for amp clips and to 'sample' new music. I get zero emotional/aural pleasure listening to Mp3s.
The fact the people actually purchase Mp3s boggles my mind.

Only we musicians recognize or even care about the difference in the .mp3 sound quality. All the general public cares about is b-boppin along to it and singing with the lyrics.

True to a point, but there are plenty of non-musician music lovers who have no use for Mp3s as well. (Non-fanatical) audiophiles would be one group. Older folks into classical and jazz who have modest stereo systems and aren't into computers would be another. There's plenty of them.
 
mentoneman":2g54q8mb said:
fredster":2g54q8mb said:
I agree that mp3s are not the best representation of music, but it's not always the medium. Music today is recorded differently than when cassettes and LPs were the thing. This article is very eye-opening here.


in the past few years i have been sorta disenchanted with recorded music in general. not so much due to the lack of quality musicianship, but just feeling disconnected to the listening experience. i normally seek out recordings that are well produced first, then have amazing musicianship i enjoy.
i also think i'm kinda spoiled by being able to hear, perform, and mix live music several times a week. which you could argue is the purist form of what we are trying to recreate with records, cd, etc.


i think metal and heavy music has actually been better than ever recording wise in the last few years since its all taken off. there are some amazing clear and massive sounding albums out there. Andy sneap and Zeuss id say are the best best engineers these days.
 
The Rolling Stone article is really interesting. I don't really have any tapes left, and no record player for the 10 vinyls I have from when I was 10...
 
I still have a stack of records laying around :lol: :LOL: I think my first record was either Bad Company, the one with Rock N Roll Fantasy or Cheap Trick Live at Budakan.
 
timbo":3vn0wwkm said:
thegame":3vn0wwkm said:
I listen to MP3s ONLY for amp clips and to 'sample' new music. I get zero emotional/aural pleasure listening to Mp3s.
The fact the people actually purchase Mp3s boggles my mind.

Only we musicians recognize or even care about the difference in the .mp3 sound quality. All the general public cares about is b-boppin along to it and singing with the lyrics.
I think you're very wrong with that assumption. Most of my non-muso friends, including my wife still bemoan the semi demise of vinyl.
Now folks that grew up without vinyl...different story.
 
there is always something special about analog, I too love my old tapes, problem is they are bad sounding now
 
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