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"Analog-Music"
Any one here a fan of Analog-Music over digital?
Took me forever to get a good Working Reel to Reel and Amp combo, but wow it was worth the money and effort, the sound is amazing. Back to the early 70's..... I feel like Austin Powers LOL
Phil
https://youtu.be/zRNK7qeKMbA
Took me forever to get a good Working Reel to Reel and Amp combo, but wow it was worth the money and effort, the sound is amazing. Back to the early 70's..... I feel like Austin Powers LOL
Phil
https://youtu.be/zRNK7qeKMbA
LOL that's GREAT 
WOW!
I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD BE ON THIS SITE CONVERSING ABOUT THIS!
I love your reel to reel.
It's very nice, much nicer than the one that I had from the 1950s.
I wish I still had it to show you pictures.
Sadly I had to give it up to make room in my apartment after separating with my wife.
I basically have a digital board for recording, but everything else is analog, all the way down to my guitar pedals.
I have two recordings that I have done professionally.
One has been released and the other is still sitting on my shelf.
I really need to finish it and release it, but it's on dat tapes, and most studios that do mastering don't have that kind of technology anymore.
The reason I put off releasing the last album was because I just wasn't happy that it was done digitally.
Literally for the kind of music that I do it was too clean.
What I love in music is the old way of recording and sometimes it's not so great and you have wash over and bleed over and there's a lot of white noise when you use microphones.
From a producer's perspective I guess that is a pain in the ass, but I have never been turned on by music that was so Crystal clear and perfect.
Don't get me wrong everything has its place... And I do like the best sound quality possible.... But not when what you're playing loses it's vibe.
I got to admit though, when you're doing punch-ins and edits digitally, it's so much easier.
But the greatest recorded music of our time and I'm speaking of the '60s and '70s, were done on very primitive equipment.
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, was literally done on a four track.
I'm posting some pictures of my rig without clearing too much stuff out of the way, but I'm sure you'll get the idea.
I didn't uncover the digital board.
The Johnny Cash t-shirt is keeping it does free at the moment.
If you're interested and would like to see more of my setup I'd be glad to take some more pictures.
Congratulations on your reel to reel.
If I had had something that nice I never would have gotten rid of it.
Not to mention the only tapes that I had were pre used and I had to record over them which left very bad quality and sometimes pre-recorded stuff would leak through into what I was recording.
Like I said mine was from the 50s and I found it sitting in someone's trash as I drove by one day.
They were throwing it out because it had been sitting in their attic since the fifties.
Good Lord I had to do a lot of work to make it work.
The belts had been sitting so long they were rotten and conformed to shape because they were hard.
After I replace the belts it worked beautifully.... But like I said I couldn't find clean tapes even in the 90s, which is when I rescued and salvaged this piece of equipment.
You'll have to tell me where you have gotten your hookups and cords from.
Radio Shack and places like Circuit City, just don't exist anymore, and I find it hard to find what I need even at Guitar Center.
What the hell is this world coming to?
The only reason record albums have made a comeback is because there are a bunch of lame ass young kids who think they're hip and trendy by buying albums.
I don't want to sound mean and negative but every single kid I know that does that, is exactly what I just said.
I do appreciate their effort.
But nine times out of 10 it's not because they hear a difference or like it....
It's because they're trying to be different from friends.... And rebel against all that digital.
When I see their turntables and their styluses, I have to laugh.
All the stuff they're producing now is garbage compared to what was made back in the day.
I pretty much equate their equipment to the KISS turntable that was marketed back in the day.
Don't get me wrong I would love to have that turntable but I would never ever play one of my important records on it.
Anywho.... Though this is a weird platform to post something like this I'm glad you did.
It's been a couple of days and you haven't had a whole lot of response....
And I certainly get that.
People download everything and live their life through their phones now.
You might as well have made a post about pay telephones on street corners.
Regards,
The PIE BOY.
I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD BE ON THIS SITE CONVERSING ABOUT THIS!
I love your reel to reel.
It's very nice, much nicer than the one that I had from the 1950s.
I wish I still had it to show you pictures.
Sadly I had to give it up to make room in my apartment after separating with my wife.
I basically have a digital board for recording, but everything else is analog, all the way down to my guitar pedals.
I have two recordings that I have done professionally.
One has been released and the other is still sitting on my shelf.
I really need to finish it and release it, but it's on dat tapes, and most studios that do mastering don't have that kind of technology anymore.
The reason I put off releasing the last album was because I just wasn't happy that it was done digitally.
Literally for the kind of music that I do it was too clean.
What I love in music is the old way of recording and sometimes it's not so great and you have wash over and bleed over and there's a lot of white noise when you use microphones.
From a producer's perspective I guess that is a pain in the ass, but I have never been turned on by music that was so Crystal clear and perfect.
Don't get me wrong everything has its place... And I do like the best sound quality possible.... But not when what you're playing loses it's vibe.
I got to admit though, when you're doing punch-ins and edits digitally, it's so much easier.
But the greatest recorded music of our time and I'm speaking of the '60s and '70s, were done on very primitive equipment.
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, was literally done on a four track.
I'm posting some pictures of my rig without clearing too much stuff out of the way, but I'm sure you'll get the idea.
I didn't uncover the digital board.
The Johnny Cash t-shirt is keeping it does free at the moment.
If you're interested and would like to see more of my setup I'd be glad to take some more pictures.
Congratulations on your reel to reel.
If I had had something that nice I never would have gotten rid of it.
Not to mention the only tapes that I had were pre used and I had to record over them which left very bad quality and sometimes pre-recorded stuff would leak through into what I was recording.
Like I said mine was from the 50s and I found it sitting in someone's trash as I drove by one day.
They were throwing it out because it had been sitting in their attic since the fifties.
Good Lord I had to do a lot of work to make it work.
The belts had been sitting so long they were rotten and conformed to shape because they were hard.
After I replace the belts it worked beautifully.... But like I said I couldn't find clean tapes even in the 90s, which is when I rescued and salvaged this piece of equipment.
You'll have to tell me where you have gotten your hookups and cords from.
Radio Shack and places like Circuit City, just don't exist anymore, and I find it hard to find what I need even at Guitar Center.
What the hell is this world coming to?
The only reason record albums have made a comeback is because there are a bunch of lame ass young kids who think they're hip and trendy by buying albums.
I don't want to sound mean and negative but every single kid I know that does that, is exactly what I just said.
I do appreciate their effort.
But nine times out of 10 it's not because they hear a difference or like it....
It's because they're trying to be different from friends.... And rebel against all that digital.
When I see their turntables and their styluses, I have to laugh.
All the stuff they're producing now is garbage compared to what was made back in the day.
I pretty much equate their equipment to the KISS turntable that was marketed back in the day.
Don't get me wrong I would love to have that turntable but I would never ever play one of my important records on it.
Anywho.... Though this is a weird platform to post something like this I'm glad you did.
It's been a couple of days and you haven't had a whole lot of response....
And I certainly get that.
People download everything and live their life through their phones now.
You might as well have made a post about pay telephones on street corners.
Regards,
The PIE BOY.
ThePieBoy
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When albums started landing on YouTube, I made the mistake of selling a lot of my vinyl -- save space, keep up with the kids. Then I went to listen to BOC's Tyranny and Mutation and it just sounded flat. No worries, it was easily available used on CD. But that sucked too! The guitars just don't scream, the snares don't sting, the drums don't hit you in the chest. It just sounds crisper on vinyl, and maybe too it's the sound I grew up with. Some 70's stuff of course sounds great on CD, but to my ears the hard rock guitar stuff generally loses something.
@smess...
You're not wrong.
I'm old. I'm 54.
I grew up in a time where going to the record store and buying a record and bringing it home and putting it on a good turntable with a good sound system and sitting and listening to the whole record all the way through..... That kind of thing was a big deal.
While you were listening you might read the liner notes and whatever else came with the record and look at the artwork and the pictures. You might even partake of substances to enhance your listening pleasure.
I don't want to sound like I bloated old windbag.... But being a musician myself I have an ear, and I can tell subtle differences in things that most people can't.
Growing up on certain recordings and listening to them on LPS and 45s....
Later on in my life when CDs became popular I bought CDs. A lot of times I was disappointed because it didn't sound like what I heard originally.
Some of the Beatles remasters are just the worst.
I think a lot of that in part has to do with the fact that the tape that was made back in the day was made out of whale oil, and overtime it disintegrates.
So a lot of those old master tapes have to be baked literally in an oven in order for them to be played again to be remastered in the digital format.
Anywho..... I guess there's just not a lot of people who care about that kind of stuff anymore.
I don't know if you're a fan or not of George Harrison...
The last album that he did, he did old school and you can tell when you listen to it. Sadly he passed away before it was finished but his good friend Jeff Lynne from ELO and his son finished the album. They did it within means that George wanted it done and you can tell.
The name of the record is "Brainwashed" and it's a gem in my collection.
It's a little sad to listen to because George is singing about his impending death because he knew he was dying...
But they humbleness that man had and the insight that he had about life is quite frankly amazing. I would have loved to known him as a person and especially to have worked with him as a musician.
All that aside...... The musical tracks on the record have that punch and sizzle that you talk about..... And for me the way the vocals are recorded..... It sounds like George is in the room with you. The vocals are very upfront without them slapping you in the face, so to speak.
You're not wrong.
I'm old. I'm 54.
I grew up in a time where going to the record store and buying a record and bringing it home and putting it on a good turntable with a good sound system and sitting and listening to the whole record all the way through..... That kind of thing was a big deal.
While you were listening you might read the liner notes and whatever else came with the record and look at the artwork and the pictures. You might even partake of substances to enhance your listening pleasure.
I don't want to sound like I bloated old windbag.... But being a musician myself I have an ear, and I can tell subtle differences in things that most people can't.
Growing up on certain recordings and listening to them on LPS and 45s....
Later on in my life when CDs became popular I bought CDs. A lot of times I was disappointed because it didn't sound like what I heard originally.
Some of the Beatles remasters are just the worst.
I think a lot of that in part has to do with the fact that the tape that was made back in the day was made out of whale oil, and overtime it disintegrates.
So a lot of those old master tapes have to be baked literally in an oven in order for them to be played again to be remastered in the digital format.
Anywho..... I guess there's just not a lot of people who care about that kind of stuff anymore.
I don't know if you're a fan or not of George Harrison...
The last album that he did, he did old school and you can tell when you listen to it. Sadly he passed away before it was finished but his good friend Jeff Lynne from ELO and his son finished the album. They did it within means that George wanted it done and you can tell.
The name of the record is "Brainwashed" and it's a gem in my collection.
It's a little sad to listen to because George is singing about his impending death because he knew he was dying...
But they humbleness that man had and the insight that he had about life is quite frankly amazing. I would have loved to known him as a person and especially to have worked with him as a musician.
All that aside...... The musical tracks on the record have that punch and sizzle that you talk about..... And for me the way the vocals are recorded..... It sounds like George is in the room with you. The vocals are very upfront without them slapping you in the face, so to speak.
ThePieBoy
