whats mad wack is you passing judgements on sound and technique, as if your opinion matters to anyone but yourself.
for working at a record store, you sure are oblivious to the subjective nature of audio appreciation not only that, but your wannabe urban lingo is "mad wack", yo some of you thought it, I said it. -Joe > > From: "Thomas D. Cox, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/07/07 Thu PM 01:56:04 EDT > To: <313@hyperreal.org> > Subject: Re: (313) digital glitches are the new tape hiss > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: David Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Okay, look - I'm 30, I grew up in the 1980's. I never owned an > ANALOG > >synth. A studio full of analog equipment isn't part of my life. > What > >is a huge part of my life is digital technology. I've been > surrounded > >by digital my whole life - beginning with my Texas Instruments 99-4A > >computer, Atari, and Yamaha DX100 and Casio CZ101. And now, > every day > >when I'm at work, I am on a computer. > > when you were young, what did you listen to music on? for me it > was always a record or a cassette, till i was about 12 in 91 and i > got a CD player. but even since then ive been a big fan of records > and cassettes, ive only owned 3 CD players (not counting whats in > my computers), none in my car and i only got a portable CD player > for the first time 2 years ago because i got it for free. > regardless, even then digital multitracking was extremely uncommon > and most stuff was made on tape and had a mostly analogue signal > path, even if it was a digital synth. > > >Digital glitch, weird DSP, all the micro-shiz, is very relevant > to me, > >because they speak to the digital experience, and they highlight the > >inherent dissonance in reality, the imperfection. Yeah, I'm on the > >microsound list too, haha. > > the thing is, digital malfunctioning doesnt sound good. if you > overdrive an analogue tape or an analogue preamp, it sounds > awesome. if you do the same with digital, it sounds horrible. > digital clipping is honestly one of the worst sounds i can think of. > > >I find it strange that people can like the imperfections of > analog, but > >at the same time fail to appreciate the "glitch" aesthetic which > >exploits the imperfections of digital. > > i like certain aspects of digital music making. low bitrate or low > frequency samples sound pretty awesome. sampling in general is a > good thing and certainly isnt easy or convenient to approximate in > analogue. ultra lo-fi digital EFX are also pretty interesting and > very cheap (though i do prefer analogue EFX). > > >Well, thank god they made a tape > >hiss VST... ;) > > that kinda thing is mad wack. > > tom > > ________________________________________________________________ > andythepooh.com > > > > >
