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Posted by casey
on 9/21/2009, 10:44 am, in reply to "I don't give a shit that the remasters died"
arguments for remastering old shit:
1) stuff that was originally mixed and mastered for vinyl had to take into account the medium itself which lent a ton of character and color to music. digital lends no character whatsoever, so people that are used to all that warmth will be majorly disappointed.
2) vinyl also has drastically different requirements because of its frequency response and the limits of music being transferred into tiny physical grooves -- one big thing is that bass has to be majorly rolled off of tracks to avoid distortion in the grooves because too much bass will drown out other frequencies, there simply is not enough room for it. to my understanding, record players are made to compensate for this by amping up certain frequencies between the groove and the speaker. so again, people who listen to a direct digital transfer are going to hear some weak flappy bass sounds.
my only word against the whole "remastering" thing is that i feel like sometimes it's just a scam to get people to buy records they already own.
no hope! see? that's what gives me guts. big f/ucking shit! right now, man.
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