HighTreason wrote:Smashed things (Worthless things like brown cardboard boxes) because I wanted to listen to 50s music... Most of what I found was […]
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Smashed things (Worthless things like brown cardboard boxes) because I wanted to listen to 50s music... Most of what I found was "Digitally Remastered" bullshit. I hate that shit, it needs to be fucking outlawed. If I want to listen to music from a certain time period it is because I like what it sounded like, I don't want my 1950s songs to sound like a shitty 90s cover band (despite being the original artist).
People who do that shit seriously need to develop serious medical conditions and die slowly on a cold floor in a puddle of their own fluids. Oh, well, guess I will have to drag my own archive out complete with unbelievably crappy bit rate and the memory of when I owned it on Vinyl before dickheads stole or smashed them all.
Either that of find the ones that are not remasters and are instead just cleaned up... But that means spending hours with a cassette deck and wires I don't have because I wanted to use them for something and the aged sound is very important for that purpose.
Shit like this is why I pirate music before even thinking of actually buying it.
Edit: My archive works. Sounds better than I remember actually, guess I encoded the older songs in higher quality for whatever reason.
As someone with a probably unhealthy attraction to collecting music, I can definitely say that cuts both ways. Yeah, in some cases, you have people who go back and completely muck with the audio of their past recordings (or who have label execs quite happy to do that for them) to create a "new" experience when the old was perfectly ok. Dave Mustaine of Megadeth is probably the most notorious I can think of where he even went and re-recorded vocals and guitars for tracks where they couldn't find the original takes on tape. Add to that making everything ear-bleed levels of loud (and this is thrash metal we're talking about, so that takes WORK) and you have something with kind of an odd quirky charm, but definitely not what you'd be reaching for by default if you wanted to hear those old albums.
On the other side, there are some engineers and artists who "get it" and are just trying to give the most transparent version of the recording (or the closest to "the vinyl experience") technology is capable of. And the tech is pretty awesome at this point. I'm currently enjoying some new speakers in my main rig through which I pump my collection ripped in lossless and that's allowing me to get reacquainted with music I've been listening to for a decade plus like I'm hearing it for the first time.
There's the Pink Floyd box set (Discovery) from 2011 that's doing the same for me with their catalog. It's just leaps and bounds over the versions I previously had and I'm loving every minute. Also, any remix/remaster with Steven Wilson's name on it is worth its weight in gold. That man knows his craft.
Back on topic, it's not nearly as technically in-depth as some of the recent posts on here, but after all the drama getting my Dell Pentium system back up and running, I spent the better part of Saturday night (into Sunday morning, naturally) just ENJOYING my vintage rig and playing Star Control 2 for hours. It's probably the first time I've played that game since... Oh, maybe 2003 or so. That may even be a little optimistic and this may be one I left sitting since the '90s. Again, like getting reacquainted with an old friend.
Oh, and on the music front, let me just say I LOVE the crappy, distorted music from my Yamaha soundcard much more than the pristine, "as heard through a high grade synthesizer" GOG version of the soundtrack. I really think the imperfections make it. 😁
