modern vinyls pressed with cd masters

i am bloody outraged. i suppose im not completely surprised, they always somehow find a new low. i just found out about this

word on the streets, is that many modern vinyls are pressed using the cd masters! the digital master! now im not a vinyl expert, but im pretty sure albums are supposed to be specially mastered to be pressed on vinyl. so using a master from a cd, is kind of like, wtf dude...not cool

vinyl freaks: please dont come in here and spout off your elite knowledge of vinyl records for 17 paragraphs. simply express your outrage

this is bullshit right here

im writing a fucking letter or something

Proof/examples? First I've heard, not that I look out for it or anything. Wouldn't surprise me tho.

  On 12/8/2010 at 4:02 PM, ET said:

word on the streets

Ah, so a reliable source then ....

Fuck off adolf, this is all your fault.

I have to admit...I have never owned a record player

  On 12/8/2010 at 4:52 PM, luke viia said:

Fuck off adolf, this is all your fault.

I tried to stop them, but they turned it around, used me to gain their holocaust immunity and antisemitic explanation to destroy the opposition.

You all just know the history of propaganda, that they were and still are feeding you, not the real one...

I also read they use WAV files for this. It's probably true. It's kind of a stupid method It only reduces quality obviously

  On 12/8/2010 at 4:11 PM, AcrossCanyons said:

Proof/examples? First I've heard, not that I look out for it or anything. Wouldn't surprise me tho.

what's that avatar you got there??

  On 12/8/2010 at 5:52 PM, hahathhat said:

  On 12/8/2010 at 4:11 PM, AcrossCanyons said:

Proof/examples? First I've heard, not that I look out for it or anything. Wouldn't surprise me tho.

 

what's that avatar you got there??

http://www.thesevenfieldsofaphelion.com/

the chick from Black Moth Super Rainbow's own project. does some really cool multi-exposure photographs and music.

this is a pressing issue

  On 12/8/2010 at 6:12 PM, troon said:

this is a pressing issue

ba dum tsh

Music is recorded digitally these days.

If it's electronic music, then it was probably recorded electronically, meaning there's no goddamn difference.

  On 12/8/2010 at 9:35 PM, Braintree said:

If it's electronic music, then it was probably recorded electronically, meaning there's no goddamn difference.

oops

  On 12/8/2010 at 6:32 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

Music is recorded digitally these days.

Good point as it was DATs back in the day and I don't reckon a lot of smaller artists have an all singing 96khz set up plus I don't think there's much point in direct mastering from something like Fruityloops, as a CD should do the job for commercial dubpap however if one is recording analogue synths on analogue tape then...

  On 12/8/2010 at 9:46 PM, oscillik said:

  On 12/8/2010 at 9:35 PM, Braintree said:

If it's electronic music, then it was probably recorded electronically, meaning there's no goddamn difference.

oops

Sorry, *digitally.

lol, whats analogue?

  On 12/8/2010 at 9:56 PM, soundwave said:

  On 12/8/2010 at 6:32 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

Music is recorded digitally these days.

 

Good point as it was DATs back in the day

i'm no hardcore audiophile, but i though the D in Dat stood for "Digital"

DAT is short for Digital Analog Tape herp derp

Someone explain to me how this is possibly bad since I guess I'm retarded.

analog = good

digital = bad

  On 12/9/2010 at 11:49 AM, Xyrofen said:

Someone explain to me how this is possibly bad since I guess I'm retarded.

Vinyl needs to be mastered with the RIAA EQ Curve taken into account. CDs aren't mastered this way, because there is no physical playback need that requires it. if a record is mastered with the CD masters, then it's going to sound REALLY shitty on playback

  On 12/9/2010 at 1:23 PM, oscillik said:

  On 12/9/2010 at 11:49 AM, Xyrofen said:

Someone explain to me how this is possibly bad since I guess I'm retarded.

Vinyl needs to be mastered with the RIAA EQ Curve taken into account. CDs aren't mastered this way, because there is no physical playback need that requires it. if a record is mastered with the CD masters, then it's going to sound REALLY shitty on playback

thank you - this was helpful.

  On 12/9/2010 at 1:23 PM, oscillik said:

  On 12/9/2010 at 11:49 AM, Xyrofen said:

Someone explain to me how this is possibly bad since I guess I'm retarded.

Vinyl needs to be mastered with the RIAA EQ Curve taken into account. CDs aren't mastered this way, because there is no physical playback need that requires it. if a record is mastered with the CD masters, then it's going to sound REALLY shitty on playback

That's the job of the engineer at the mastering plant. When you mix something down to CD, you could probably take that mix and then send it to the record plant with no tweaking at all. The ME at the plant will apply the RIAA curve (thank goodness for standardization though) before he cuts the master.