What you listening to right now?

Have you seen the whole film Sarah? It’s brill

 

I'm on your side really, I recently bought a vst plugin that emulates tape to smear/distort and warm up my own stuff. Digital can be stark. processing at 96KHz sorts a lot of the un-musical harsh harmonics bounced back from Nyquist into the audible range (aliasing) but still... and it's cpu intensive to work like that.

 

96kHz is a different ball game, altogether, I would completely agree.

Although, I am almost certain the RIAA correction has its part to play, as well.

 

Any non-linear processing creates artefacts. A lot of the in-your-face modern music the "kids" love these days, and rave music from back in the day was characterised by un-musical aliasing! Even these days effect manufacturers are only just catching on to this and internally processing at higher sample rates, then filtering off the rebounds before down sampling back to reality - until quite recently computers couldn't manage it - professional studios making hit records avoided it without even knowing it existed by carrying on using their expensive outboard gear - knowing they preferred the warm analogue sound but not knowing why but dogs like me have to know about it or you get into a processing spiral treating your harsh sound... but gradually making it worse. Then removing the pile of eqs and whatever only to find it sounds better. Eventually you do your homework and find out about these things. it took me a year to figure it out.

But it's not always bad - some music thrives on it and is dead without. Personally I avoid non linear processing that doesn't internally over-sample.

 

It's all a waste of time in the end with producers being just about the only one's who care - internet streaming/processing, apple ear buds etc - who even has "speakers" these days apart from a few old gits like us? Even then we listen in a room full of nulls and wonder why it sounds weird unless we stand up.. if we notice. lol

 

Interesting, well, it's hard to argue against your point, as you say, anything non linear will destroy the sound, although second harmonic doesn't seem as nasty as higher order stuff.

I am certain my current "cooking" system is full of distortion, but it's all single ended and so predominantly second, my ears seem ok with that

 

One aspect of the resurgence of vinyl that seems an anachronism to me is those turntables that output only Bluetooth


Don't get me wrong, I am grateful for the fact I can still buy records

 

Distortion and natural harmonics are ok! It's the totally musically irrelevant harmonics bounced back into the 3-10K range that really mess things up. Funny really that there is a whole industry dedicated to creating natural harmonics and subtle (and not so subtle) harmonics for producers. That's essentially what my tape thing does. lol I suspect a lot of the people who buy into it in a big way and actually trying to drown out the un-natural aliasing harmonics with nice ones. lol

 

this album

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Hahahaha, you're right, more processing won't make it any better....

This sounds horrible on digital, stick it on vinyl and the music comes back...

We should save magic maths like digital predistortion for our mobile phones....

 

True - the more I do this thing the less processing I do. I do have a good automatic spectral mastering processor though. Naughty. It's very clever, 32 bands of automatic eq that react on the fly to what they hear and "sort it out" to an adjustable pre-programmed curve. lol

 

You should post more stuff on here then, your stuff, always up for new music


Sometimes, less is really is more....god that's deep for Tuesday

 

I should have been a producer, that's what I enjoy the most. It's tricky to post things up here when the contributors are spread around the world and probably would not give permission, or it would be too complicated to get that permission using google translate. Here's one that I think the contributors wouldn't care either way, it's just some fun rock and roll. I get a mention in the lyrics for programming/mixing the drums that started it off. The guitarist/singer is in America, a proper nice bloke - bass player is also in America and he was the one that mixed it to sound so heavy. Just the three of us, We've done a few now. As normal, I'll delete it in a few days.
Tongue in cheek this one - Rockin' the Trolley.
Sorry, can't embed this.
Sorry, couldn't leave this here forever.

 

Are you familiar with Fela Kuti?
I slowed down some fast drumming/guitar/bass, added the guitar that starts it and and holds it together, the keyboards and the brass, extended it and mixed in the vocals - proper producing, it sounded nothing like this when I started. It's a tribute to Fela Kuti. I think it's pretty Fela Kuti-ish if you're familiar. Just a bit of fun, making it all gel and sound kind of live was really difficult.
Drummer in Germany, Singer/bass and other guitars on a little French island near India called Reunion. unfortunate digital clipping on Phillipe's guitars and it was a bunch of mp3 files I had to flip the phase and null instruments out of to get some kind of control but what can you do?
Link removed - these are always going to be temporary.

 

30 years since Freddie died.

 

I enjoyed that

 

Mind your eardrums, oldies.