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>Digital is cold and thin compared to analog. Claude Shannon emphatically disagrees. When sampling at twice the highest audible frequency they are mathematically equivalent.
To hand me this secondhand abstraction contrived by this guy I never met. It's a bit crazy.
When I read this, I was trying to map "record labels" and "music" onto "big 5 publishers" and "books." The Big 5 are not quite there yet, but you can almost feel it gestating in the minds of those executives: "publish your book yourself, and if it's a hit, then we'll reprint it and do your next one." In the other article by Ted Gioia (the talk with Rick Beato), Ted said, back in the old days, half the people in the r…
Now it's owned by Chinese technology companies, hedge funds, and regional telephone monopoly conglomerates and run by musically deaf accountants that only care about next quarters numbers.
Being a musician and audio engineer right now for 30 years, I see all this and I simply shake my head. I've long given up the hopes of monetary success for my music. One thing that remains is the energy exchange between an artist and the audience in a live setting. If you love music and you are not an emotional robot you know what I am talking about. Software can't replicate that and the artistry in the performer kno…
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Last I heard (been some years now), record companies have preferred to do lots of inflicting upon the sound, before letting it near any digital format that ordinary folks can buy.
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>Digital is cold and thin compared to analog. Claude Shannon emphatically disagrees. When sampling at twice the highest audible frequency they are mathematically equivalent.
But what about your own ears? To hand me this secondhand abstraction contrived by this guy I never met. It's a bit crazy.
I don’t get why artists even use record labels anymore. Is there something that Facebook/YouTube/iTunes etc doesn’t provide?
Facebook/YouTube/iTunes doesn't give your band a $200,000 advance and fund a tour schedule across the USA eastern seaboard.
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I'm not sure what this means. There is an incredible amount of music created digitally and transmitted digitally that is anything but cold and thin, whatever that means. If my ear can't tell the difference, there is no emotional or practical difference as a listener. (I've been playing acoustic guitar for 30 years and enjoy almost all genres of music if relevant)
Probably someone who really likes tube amps. Many audiophiles scoff at "digital" music, i.e. audio that is amplified with silicon transistors. Modern transistors are very fast, so noise that gets through the filters typically sounded like sharp pops and hisses. With older (and slower to respond) analog technologies, unwanted noise gets smoothed into more pleasing hums and modulations. These days, there are excellent…
Being a musician and audio engineer right now for 30 years, I see all this and I simply shake my head. I've long given up the hopes of monetary success for my music. One thing that remains is the energy exchange between an artist and the audience in a live setting. If you love music and you are not an emotional robot you know what I am talking about. Software can't replicate that and the artistry in the performer kno…
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If modern music is mastered digitally (and assuming I want to listen to modern music), what advantages do analog technologies bring?
If you're not passing your scratched to shit vinyl through a $20,000 tube amp and a Denon AKDL1 link cable you're not hearing the sound as the artist intended it.
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A popular “musician” is just a front person for an entire organization of producers, videographers, lawyers, promoters, that can get you into venues, choreographers etc. It still takes a lot to produce a hit and the money is still made from concerts https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/07/11/137705590/the-...
I can imagine a lot more stories like the one of Billie Eilish and Finneas producing her first album at home... > This is no humblebrag bedroom studio that turns out to have been professionally outfitted. It’s just a regular bedroom, with a bed against one wall, where Eilish sat to record her vocals, facing a desk and bookshelves and O’Connell’s modest production setup: Apple Logic Pro X, a Universal Audio Apollo 8 i…