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That's the exact same experience I had with the TDK's. I started on a Tascam 4 track and graduated to their 8 track. Even the new Maxell's I would buy in the 90's started doing it. But by then they didn't make the gold label ones I used in the 80's. Quality control started to die along with the cassette tape format right around that time.

I always preferred Maxell tape. TDK used to sound dull to me like the recording was made without Dolby on, but played back with it on. I always preferred chrome over metal as well. I can remember going into my local music store, Record World iirc, and there was a giant rack full of every brand and type of blank cassette you could ever want. And then there was Radio Shack. I bought one of theirs, once. Lol. I still have a few NOS Maxell UDS-II tapes never opened I bought way back in the day. The original gold label version, not the later CD version. The tape path on those were superior to anything else I tried. I still have tapes that play and sound great I made back in the 80's and 90's. I recently watched a YouTube video of a woman restoring an old cassette deck. I think it was an Akai. It had a manual bias control on the front panel. She did some sound tests and after adjusting the bias I couldn't hear the difference between the digital rip and the cassette playback.

A very very long time ago there was a thread floating around about the good saturation some cheap interfaces produce. To this day the best sounding interface, to my ears, was my M-Audio Fast Track Ultra. I still have it, but there's no drivers available for it past XP iirc. And the rubber on the knobs has turned to a sticky goo from age. Clean isn't always better. In fact, my favorite 'clean' old country recordings from the 50's and 60's have a lot of saturation on the vocals and I personally really like that sound. Tape heads and phono cartridges both introduce compression during recording and playback. In my world, I try to emulate the mechanical recording methods in the digital realm. Not an easy task, especially when you are not held back by the limitations of tape and analog gear and have the world at your fingertips IRT compression, saturation, etc. etc.. But it sure is fun trying.

Same here. I spend so much time trying to make everything sound like I recorded it on tape that I might as well have just recorded it on tape and saved 496 hours per mix.

Depends on the size of the pin I guess. I mean, Angels were giants. That whole Nephilum thing.

Exactly. I did a very in depth test one time on sampling frequencies. Iirc, on the soundcard I was using at the time, 48khz sounded best with the least amount if artifacts when rendering fx. This is especially evident when soloing reverb and listening to the trail end/fadeout of it. The forum crashed shortly after I posted it on the old forum and all the posts for that day were lost. I never reposted it but I wish I did. I had sound samples and listed the different daws I used. I got different results between Sonar, Reaper, and S1 Thats still internal. IRT playback/monitoring real-time ... I can hear a difference in how they produce the sound you are hearing. Internally we can null test this and show there is no difference, but with real-time live monitoring there sure seems to be to my ears. That said, I don't think I've ever heard a bad sounding daw, but I can hear a difference during monitoring/playback. Sonar has always been my favorite. I only switched due to stability problems that apparently only applied to me (cough cough). All of my gear is boxed up. If I ever get back into music I may land back on the Sonar bandwagon.

I tried a dual monitor setup one time. Couldn't get used to it. I want to mount mine on the wall to free up desktop space. The distance would require me to get larger than 43". Even gaming isn't an issue. I only dabble in one game. Fallout 4. I have an old rtx 3060 and I can run a rock solid 60Hz/4K with all Ultra settings (minus God rays and fog) on this old cheap TV I have. I can't complain whatsoever. Maybe if someone was doing online gaming and latency was critical, but I'm more than happy with working and the limited gaming I do on my cheap 43" Vizio. The new Vizio Oleds tvs do 120hz in pc/gaming mode in 4k at a fraction of the price of a dedicated monitor.

I use a 43" TV as my monitor. A lot of tv's now will run 4K 120hz native in pc/gaming mode. Mine will run 4k 60hz but I'm more than happy with it.

He was a musician so maybe they joined a band. He played bass. Chuck Mangione just died too. Ozzy on vocals, Hulk on bass, and Chuck on Trumpet. What a trio.

It depends. Sometimes it makes sense to pay more throughout the year so you owe less to the government in the end in taxes. I'd have to guess that does not apply to the vast majority of audio software users so a that point it's personal choice. I have never, and never will subscribe to anything for home use audio related. I had to subscribe to a few things for my LLC and in the end ... it works out in my favor. I'll switch back to tape and other hardware before I ever subscribe to a DAW and VST's, but I'm a sporadic user. I'm not in my studio every day like I used to be If you are a heavy home user, I can certainly see why someone would subscribe to Adobe or audio related stuff. I don't think people are wrong if they do is what I'm saying. I think having a choice to buy or subscribe is great. I just worry about the slippery slope of sub only like Adobe.

She was from NJ. One of the guys I used to work with was related to her. Cousins iirc. She's on my random playlist all the time from that era of music I listen to. Sad to see her go. It's hard to tell now days who will fill all these singers shoes from back in that era with all the autotune and AI. Back then, they hit record, the singers and musicians did their thing, and you got what you got. Pure and real.

Uh ... I didn't know the Chinese were a capitalist nation.

The woman in the red dress is Telly Savalas' daughter. He's mostly known for playing Kojak in the old TV series.

Being part "Native American", from both my parents, is one of the things I'm most proud of. Not that it matters what I think or feel, it just is what it is. My maternal great (don't know how many greats) grandfather was a Presbyterian Preacher from England that came here and married a full blooded Mohawk woman in the 1700's. I have a copy of a tintype photo of her when she looked to be 100. We were "colonized" so to speak a lot sooner than most people realize. Some established going back to the 1500's. Which begs the question, how far back do you go to correct wrongs, in any country, anywhere in the world? Am I due back rent on my ancestral territories? Just kidding, but when I think of everything this country has gone through over the last 249 years and the steady decline after WWII, hmm. We are what we are and love us or hate us, we truly are the last stand. There's still vast parts of this country where common sense prevails and we know how to take care of ourselves. It may not appear that way from the outside because those people are silenced by the manipulation of numbers is larger areas, but we're still here, ready, willing, and able to defend the Republic. That's what America is. When it's not, then it's over. You won't see it by plane, or bomb, or invasion, it will happen from within.

No. Sorry. This is a music related forum only.

There's an interview with him floating around out there somewhere where he talks about how and why he invented it for them. I think the company that made a VST out of the ADT effect put it out. That's where I first heard about it. It sounds like they probably used it on some guitars too.

I disliked the Beach Boys long before I ever knew about session musicians and all that. Growing up, I always assumed the guys in the band were what I was hearing on the recordings. It wasnt until much later in life when I started reading about session musicians and then realized who I was actually hearing on the vast majority of hits from back in the day. At that point I gained a whole new respect for those that wrote and recorded their songs themselves. The BB's always sounded slightly off key to me and that's partly why I don't like them. I think it's because there were too many similar voices competing for space? I don't know. They just don't appeal to my ears. I never understood the comparison between the Beatles and them either. There really is none. Two different animals that shouldn't be compared imo. Both are great to the masses and it doesn't matter what I think, it matters what the majority think. I saw a video recently with Gene Simmons who was dealing with a cocky interviewer. He shut the guy down and basically told him it doesn't matter what you and I think of a group, it matters what the people who do like them that pay them for their music thinks. Something to that effect. And he's right. He started rattling off names of old singers and the kid never heard of them and you could see Gene just wanted to slap him. It was funny. IOW I admit I'm in the minority with my dislike for their vocals and it doesn't matter what I think. One dig on the Beatles is, they couldn't do vocals very well so they had an EMI engineer invent ADT so they wouldn't waste so much time on studio takes trying to get their double tracked vocals right. Can you imagine the pressure on both of those groups to keep pumping out hits by the record labels at that time? I can see why Brian Wilson lost his marbles and Lennon ended up with Yoko. Lol.

I didn't watch the video, but I read an article about it. I think she's being a bit oversensitive about it. That said, a lot of people don't really give a flyin' hoot about the R&R Hall Of Fame so I've read. I think I was there once at their museum or whatever it is. The only thing I can remember is seeing one of Bowie's costumes. And I don't know why I remember just that, I'm not a fan at all of his work.

Too soon? 😁

There's a lot of great younger indie artists out. I really like her, Sierra Ferrell and Charlie Crockett.

To me, the difference is they didn't hide it so to speak. Nobody with strings in their song sat there and did it themselves. But the difference between the two groups is, one had professional studio musicians do most of the work, the other did it themselves and were closely involved in the process from start to finish. And there's no right or wrong in regard to doing that. But more of my respect goes to The Beatles for the group hands on. At least at the beginning. As technology improved over their careers, then they changed. And eventually went back to the early days. The other thing for me that really turns me off about The Beach Boys is their involvement with certain people. I've read that one psyco inparticular actually co-wrote some of their hits but never received credit. Hard to say if that's true but there's no denying their involvement with him. And as I sit here typing this Please Please Me comes on and all I hear is the 4 of them. Messed up lyrics and all ... 🙂 listen close around 1:25. 🙂 You can hear the frustration in Lennon's voice when he does the first "Come on" after the mess up. 🙂

Thanks to my Columbia House membership way back in the day, I inadvertently ended up with dozens of 1st release CD's before the loudness wars. I'm probably sitting on a small fortune of CD's to the right buyer. I have the original CD release of Brothers In Arms among many others. I haven't touched my DAW (for music) in several years. Seems I remember that whole lufs -14 (or whatever it was) is a nice sweet spot to shoot for. What we consider proper was actually mastered for vinyl for various reasons. From the RIAA curve, to the turntable, to the pre-amp, and then the main stereo amp, it all seemed to be calibrated for a very particular level. Now there are no limitations of a mechanical form, so I can see how this ball started rolling. Plus, how much dynamic range is there really when you have two tiny speakers rammed an 1/8 inch from your eardrum like most do nowadays.

They just raised it 19% here in NJ. Kicks in at the end of the month. As for masters, I hope it's the start of a new trend too. These days I listen to music I don't even particularly like just for the quality of the recording.

The thing that sets McCartney and the Beatles apart is, they wrote and recorded their music themselves. Espwcially in the early years. They never had The Wrecking Crew backing them other than George Martin's input. Sting was a good businessman, but a writing legend he is not ....

I never got all the fuss about them. Pet Sounds Vs. Sgt. Pepper ... uh ... no. Still sad to see a legend go though.