My 2 cents on CD's (as theres been a lot of talk on CD's been the main media on this thread)

A lot of people have been talking about embracing new technology to be more creative. Sounds to me that if you want to be that creative then you should setup a live pa and do your own thing. As sunil said, its all about selection/playing 2-3 tracks, bringing them in and taking them out with passion. Not singing along to music or jamming along on a keyboard. There seems to be some confusion between the jocks and the PA's on this thread. I dont seem why DJ's seem to feel they have to be somekinda technological front man. All they are there to do is play the music they love. Its the music itself that really matters

Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
the resolution argument for vinyl is just silly.
even 44-16 CD has a better frequency response then vinyl.
+ you can do a lot more in the stereo field then the limitations of vinyl.
And with vinyl the louder and deeper the cut the more space needed for the grooves etc.
+ a lot of vinyl is cut from CD master anyway.
I love vinyl, but I hate producing for vinyl, because you have to compromise on sound.
True but this brings a lot of problems. I would much rather people use vinyl, CD's seem a bit tacky to me (seriously). You have a lot of people who seem willing to play out mp3's from as low as 128kb/s which does more damage than good imo. Its easy for artists to try out now mixes on the latest piece of software which is a good thing but....

You have a lot a artists using digital kit for mixdown, digital softsynths, softsamplers, digital mixers, digital sounding fruity loops :P. The final mix will sound digital, thats not the problem. You get all that really high 16k and above (not sure the exact freq) cymblant/irritant sound. What if you dont know how to warm it all up or don’t feel the need to. The thought of having to go out and hear all that come out of the latest digital toy is a nightmare (for me). Yea people press from CD masters, but its the pressing which take off those really high freq's that **** your ears and it does warm it up a little. The pressing makes it more analog imo. I am with Jonnyspeed, CD’s sound a lot colder to me too. Do we really need that little bit of extra bandwidth to move things forwards?

Also if its sold on cd as the main media then its going to have a set tempo. It will be copied via soulseek etc. There’s no control on piracy so artists will get less in a scene that already pays peanuts.

I love Pa's, I love technology. I love CD's/ been able to have something played of cd out live!! I dont like digital sounding kits, crap DAC's.

Bring on the hardware, bring on the pa's. Keep the vinyl :lol: