Drukqs - Parental Advisory Warning

  On 10/6/2016 at 3:16 PM, D4M0 said:

Drukqs repress, warp pls...

gotta be that person here and say no ty, the original vinyl was pressed from cd quality source

  On 10/6/2016 at 8:49 PM, petina said:

 

  On 10/6/2016 at 3:16 PM, D4M0 said:

Drukqs repress, warp pls...

 

gotta be that person here and say no ty, the original vinyl was pressed from cd quality source

 

What? Where'd you get that?

  On 10/6/2016 at 8:54 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 10/6/2016 at 8:49 PM, petina said:

 

  On 10/6/2016 at 3:16 PM, D4M0 said:

Drukqs repress, warp pls...

 

gotta be that person here and say no ty, the original vinyl was pressed from cd quality source

 

What? Where'd you get that?

 

*cracks knuckles, gets ready for everyone to groan at me for this even tho im just stating facts*

  On 10/6/2016 at 9:01 PM, petina said:

 

  On 10/6/2016 at 8:54 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 10/6/2016 at 8:49 PM, petina said:

 

  On 10/6/2016 at 3:16 PM, D4M0 said:

Drukqs repress, warp pls...

 

gotta be that person here and say no ty, the original vinyl was pressed from cd quality source

 

What? Where'd you get that?

 

 

*cracks knuckles, gets ready for everyone to groan at me for this even tho im just stating facts*

 

 

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here's a pic of a section of a vinyl rip

 

 

the frequencies cut off at ~22kHz, which is the same quality as a CD. the purple lines you see above 22.5 are artifacts from surface noise. this could imply it was pressed from a CD, or aphex only ever rendered the tracks at this quality (which would be understandable seeing as he made this album on a laptop in the late 90s, didn't he?) i'm not saying, like, don't buy the records or whatever. just know what you're getting

 

Interesting... I assume this is your own vinyl rip - would anything in your chain possibly contribute to it being capped at that? (also I thought CDs were 44.1 kHz?)

As for "made on a laptop in the late 90's"... I am sure Richard used far more than just a laptop in the recording process. The amount of love and effort he put into DrukQs would lead me to think he wouldn't have capped the tracks at such a limit (and that he would know the difference).

Or, perhaps like most people, he can't hear the difference anyway, so why bother?

  On 10/6/2016 at 9:12 PM, Joyrex said:

also I thought CDs were 44.1 kHz?)

Read up on the Nyquist theorem.  :D

^ yup

do any other albums go above 22.5khz on vinyl? I'm interested to know what vinyl's upper limit is..

  On 10/7/2016 at 3:07 AM, modey said:

^ yup

 

do any other albums go above 22.5khz on vinyl? I'm interested to know what vinyl's upper limit is..

There isn't really any "upper limit" like with the Nyquist theorem, but somewhere between 50kHz and 100kHz should be practically possible at least. Check the CD4 format which reproduces freqeuencies up to 45kHz, for instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Discrete_4

  On 10/7/2016 at 3:34 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

i'd say there's a good chance that there's a low pass filter around 22khz on most record players or amplifiers, the only way that extra resolution would come in handy would be if it were pressed at 45 and you slowed it down.

There's no low pass filter on record players. The mastering and/or cutting engineer will probably apply a low pass filter and a high pass filter, as well as summing the sub ~100Hz content to mono.

Check this link:

http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Myths_(Vinyl)

It really depends on the hardware you are playing back on.

Also:

Audiophiles will tell you that analog sources or hi-res digital (96k / 24bit etc) let you hear things like "space" and "definition" I.E. -- not necessarily audio information but "spacial audio metadata". And there are studies that show this to be true. HOWEVER, in the realm of electronic music it really doesn't buy you much since your sound is generated inside of a circuit and (these days) passed directly into a mixer or similar to be placed on a medium (tape / DAT / CD / wax / whatever). The supersonic and subsonic information is generally created when recording in an acoustic space.

  On 10/6/2016 at 9:12 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 10/6/2016 at 9:01 PM, petina said:

 

  On 10/6/2016 at 8:54 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 10/6/2016 at 8:49 PM, petina said:

 

  On 10/6/2016 at 3:16 PM, D4M0 said:

Drukqs repress, warp pls...

gotta be that person here and say no ty, the original vinyl was pressed from cd quality source

What? Where'd you get that?

*cracks knuckles, gets ready for everyone to groan at me for this even tho im just stating facts*

 

 

  Reveal hidden contents

here's a pic of a section of a vinyl rip

 

 

the frequencies cut off at ~22kHz, which is the same quality as a CD. the purple lines you see above 22.5 are artifacts from surface noise. this could imply it was pressed from a CD, or aphex only ever rendered the tracks at this quality (which would be understandable seeing as he made this album on a laptop in the late 90s, didn't he?) i'm not saying, like, don't buy the records or whatever. just know what you're getting

 

Interesting... I assume this is your own vinyl rip - would anything in your chain possibly contribute to it being capped at that? (also I thought CDs were 44.1 kHz?)

 

As for "made on a laptop in the late 90's"... I am sure Richard used far more than just a laptop in the recording process. The amount of love and effort he put into DrukQs would lead me to think he wouldn't have capped the tracks at such a limit (and that he would know the difference).

 

Or, perhaps like most people, he can't hear the difference anyway, so why bother?