listening to exiles "zip disks and floppies" on vinyl.
and after having listened on spotify up until now i can tell cats just used the digital master and transferred over to vinyl. as opposed to truly having the master house make the master with vinyl in mind
plus my copy (maybe all) has pops throughout. can anyone confirm?
i'm a little disappointed. its one of my favorite releases but damn… i'd rather just listen to the digital
oh well… happy to support a dope album nonetheless
1. "I talked about this with certain local musicians" In response to Reply # 0 Sat Jan-25-14 04:43 PM by Nodima
because a lot of the label's early output was vinyl, and then they became affiliated and then truly independent again, and a lot of the releases were LPs with a CD in the sleeve, at least during the initial push to regain identity. and I noticed that a lot of their releases had a pair of masters, for the LP and the CD.
unfortunately, I think "mastered for iTunes" is the new sub-standard.
3. "That's not true....not true at all. " In response to Reply # 0
This guy is a legend in my hood, he just got a lot of scary looking gun toting Jamaicans hanging out there. If you don't mind all the rasclot, bumbaclot, bloodclot cuss words that let loose every 3 seconds then you'll love it, because they smoke bomb ass weed up in there. http://www.don1sounds.net/
4. "Unless it's a lathe cut I think it's impossible not to" In response to Reply # 0
But usually the music itself isn't being 'mastered for vinyl' but the vinyl houses are making vinyl masters based on what the customer supplies which is usually a digital master, when it would be more appropriate to master for vinyl from the final mix.
8. "For the most part, you are correct" In response to Reply # 0 Sun Jan-26-14 04:38 AM by johnbook
Even though vinyl seems to be outselling other hard copy formats, there seems to be less of an emphasis on sound quality, care, and the mastering process. If it's loud, if it booms, if it sounds good in the car, then they'll press up whatever they want. The bad thing about it is that a lot of labels (both majors and indies) are releasing them on 180g or 200g audiophile vinyl, and with the prices for them, buyers are getting royally screwed. Just because something is pressed on thicker vinyl doesn't mean the quality has or will improve. We've gone back to the mid to late 80's when people were wondering why old music from the 50's and 60's didn't sound like 1982 Hall & Oates or Wang Chung. That's not how it works.
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