Excellent analysis (both Zork & PJW.) I used to produce R-to-R recordings of my university chorale and instrumental concerts, mostly in a 19th century chapel on campus with excellent reverb characteristics. There was also a pipe organ in that chapel, and music depth is never as evident when listening to Toccata & Fugue in Dm at full pipe volume in a reverb chamber (I tear up just thinking about how good that sounds and FEELS). Summer before my senior year I was in Hollywood recording studios. My formative music years were with either 70's rock or classical on albums or live recording of classics and pipe organ music. The recordings I made in college are still better than ANYTHING you can hear digitally since 1980.
Once you get used to live or uncompressed, unsampled recordings (e.g., the sound path is analog all the way), ***nothing else will do***. Even the HD quality on YouTube videos has compression and sampling and D/A conversion (and listening on a laptop or desktop without a quality sound card introduces more compression artifacts and distortion.)
Not only is music getting repetitive, banal and idiotic, high compression (drums/cymbals especially, which began in the mid '80s) eliminates high dynamic range in the recordings. Sampled (digital) music is usually low bit rate and MP3 encoded, making music sound like you're listening in a metal drum-every note is the same volume. Forget music having tonal or volume nuance.
Note there is a renaissance of people buying '70's & '80's hifi stereo setups now which, when playing high quality LPs (or even well-mastered chrome cassettes), gets you close to the all-analog sound.
I wish I had a way to triple-like your comment. I have never been as close to the music production as you have, but I do know that nothing compares to the sound experience of listening to an organ or a choir singing Gregorian hymns in a gothic church.
My problem is the business model and the continued degradation it enables.
Yes, I listened to all of the videos (the live concert music was not YouTube HD quality, so the sound was muddy.) To me the "music you hate" seemed highly compressed (benefits: if listened to in your car, the quiet notes will be louder due to compression so you can hear all the music; bad: the decibel depth of the music is compromised if you are listening with a good hifi setup).
Yeah, getting business models (and music compression for listening in noisy environments) are 2 strikes yer OUT!
Excellent analysis (both Zork & PJW.) I used to produce R-to-R recordings of my university chorale and instrumental concerts, mostly in a 19th century chapel on campus with excellent reverb characteristics. There was also a pipe organ in that chapel, and music depth is never as evident when listening to Toccata & Fugue in Dm at full pipe volume in a reverb chamber (I tear up just thinking about how good that sounds and FEELS). Summer before my senior year I was in Hollywood recording studios. My formative music years were with either 70's rock or classical on albums or live recording of classics and pipe organ music. The recordings I made in college are still better than ANYTHING you can hear digitally since 1980.
Once you get used to live or uncompressed, unsampled recordings (e.g., the sound path is analog all the way), ***nothing else will do***. Even the HD quality on YouTube videos has compression and sampling and D/A conversion (and listening on a laptop or desktop without a quality sound card introduces more compression artifacts and distortion.)
Not only is music getting repetitive, banal and idiotic, high compression (drums/cymbals especially, which began in the mid '80s) eliminates high dynamic range in the recordings. Sampled (digital) music is usually low bit rate and MP3 encoded, making music sound like you're listening in a metal drum-every note is the same volume. Forget music having tonal or volume nuance.
Note there is a renaissance of people buying '70's & '80's hifi stereo setups now which, when playing high quality LPs (or even well-mastered chrome cassettes), gets you close to the all-analog sound.
I wish I had a way to triple-like your comment. I have never been as close to the music production as you have, but I do know that nothing compares to the sound experience of listening to an organ or a choir singing Gregorian hymns in a gothic church.
My problem is the business model and the continued degradation it enables.
Did you listen into the AI horror performance?
Yes, I listened to all of the videos (the live concert music was not YouTube HD quality, so the sound was muddy.) To me the "music you hate" seemed highly compressed (benefits: if listened to in your car, the quiet notes will be louder due to compression so you can hear all the music; bad: the decibel depth of the music is compromised if you are listening with a good hifi setup).
Yeah, getting business models (and music compression for listening in noisy environments) are 2 strikes yer OUT!