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Old 06-13-2009, 08:53 PM   #424
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Re: BWGK on Vinyl

Alright I dropped a few BTCS tracks into Cool Edit and A/Bed between them to see what I could find. That is, tracks on the vinyl recorded at 24/96 and the CD.

There doesn't seem to be a hell of a lot of difference at first glance. On the CD, tracks like Stay and Rapunzel are gently brickwalled enough to be 'loud' but not enough to cause audible clipping. A square wave won't show up on vinyl because it's not possible, so the best you'll get are some approximations of square waves.

On The Dreaming Tree, it would appear, barring any mechanical or technical fault of the software or anything else, that the compression is less on the LP than on the CD. In the final chorus leading up to and following "the dreaming tree has died..." where Tim really wails and bends that one note over and over, there are stray transients present at different levels that seem to be all compressed to one level on the CD.

So anyway, the lesson here is to just enjoy the damn music.
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