Good read here:
http://fabriclondon.com/fabricfirst/blog/juan-on-juan-your-questions-answered/
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Love the section about tape manipulation and the reverse hand clap.
A quick question re : Whereas when I put a CD up against a vinyl I
always have to EQ the CD a lot hotter than the vinyl, to make it
compare
What does hotter mean in this context?
2009/9/10 Martin Dust mar...@dustscience.com:
On 10 Sep 2009, at 13:20, Ravinder S Mann wrote:
Love the section about tape manipulation and the reverse hand clap.
A quick question re : Whereas when I put a CD up against a vinyl I
always have to EQ the CD a lot hotter than the vinyl, to make it
compare
What does hotter mean in this
To an old studio rat like Juan 'hotter' would mean raw signal level.
I thought it was kind of a curious comment on his part, actually,
because CD players are at the same nominal level as the output of a
phono preamp.
I wonder if he just likes that high frequency distortion that's
unavoidable with
On 10 Sep 2009, at 14:46, kent williams wrote:
To an old studio rat like Juan 'hotter' would mean raw signal level.
I thought it was kind of a curious comment on his part, actually,
because CD players are at the same nominal level as the output of a
phono preamp.
EQ isn't signal level tho
Wouldnt boosting all the frequencies make it sound . . . well I cant
describe it but overdriven. I play about with the EQ on my stereo as
we all do and that set up usually sounds rubbish. If anything I drop
out the mid section a bit, boost the tops a bit and boost the bass a
little more than the
On 10 Sep 2009, at 15:40, Ravinder S Mann wrote:
Wouldnt boosting all the frequencies make it sound . . . well I cant
describe it but overdriven. I play about with the EQ on my stereo as
we all do and that set up usually sounds rubbish. If anything I drop
out the mid section a bit, boost the
I would assume he's referring to the fact that CD's are often mastered
with heavy compression, and so while they often sound loud and upfront
as all getout, they often have a noticeable lack of dynamics compared
to vinyl -- they don't pop like well-cut vinyl does. That's
something you only really
JT Stewart wrote:
I would assume he's referring to the fact that CD's are often mastered
with heavy compression, and so while they often sound loud and upfront
as all getout, they often have a noticeable lack of dynamics compared
to vinyl -- they don't pop like well-cut vinyl does. That's
Yeah. That's like the usage in a mixer manual. Hot is multi-purpose
slang though. When you describe music as hot it could mean a few
different things and possibly any or all simultaneously. Hot like
great, hot like banging, hot like virtuosic, hot like a recording that
pops...hot like really loud
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