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For your Continuing Education!

Posted by j.l.guillebeau@att.net (M) on August 9, 2002 at 13:19:02

In Reply to: Re: What planet are you on? posted by thylantyr on August 9, 2002 at 09:21:17:

I'm writing this slow because I know you can't read fast: You wouldn't be pulling my cord would you?

"Can't teach an old dog new tricks"
I don't consider myself an old dog. If it's relevant, I still skydive, speed rollerblade, ride a Buell Lightning, and f&*^ a woman at least twice a week.
"Old timers are stuck in their old ways"
Maybe you are but I'm not!
"I have to deal with people still stuck in the DOS"
You poor soul. I've graduated to Linux and think that all persons associated with and involved with the Microsoft product should be corralled, tatooed across their forehead with a bar code and never be allowed to write software again.
In short, I'm about QUALITY. Listen I do to both CDs and Vinyl, but you know, my ears tell me that the average CD hitting the market is overprocessed. It is the sum total of what some "young turk" engineer thinks is "quality" and has "the righteous sound". You see this young turk is a GATEKEEPER. He's probably got a shaved head and a bone in his nose and couple of rings in both ears, a tatoo on his ass, a ring in his left tit and has the audacity to think that he is an audio expert. I have releases of the Mercury Living Presence series in both Vinyl and the same issue on CD and in most every instance, the CD is attenuated in dynamics. The reason is because it's being processed. This young turk thinks that he has the ability to improve on what Robert Fine, the original recording engineer did. You see it has a little tape hiss and young turk foams at the mouth and digresses into a fit of seizures at the first sign of tape hiss. We have to Dolbyize. We have to Californicate it. And in the process of Californicating it we loose some of the highs, the sheen around some of the instruments. I would much rather have the highs and the sheen there with the tape hiss. For this young turk gatekeeper has just put a veil between me and the music. I could ring his neck!
"mass market audio is a joke"
I agree. Madison Avenue Bullshit! Anyone paying 10-100 grand for an amplifier needs to be sexually abused by a bull moose in the middle of the rutt.
"If you think that op-amps contaminate music...."
Most of the music on CD or Vinyl is tained. By too much G-D processing. Not one or two but infinite chains of the damn things. It has to be de-essed, and equalized, and compressed, and limited, and reverberated, and flanged, and overbudded not once but let's max it out! Just look at what is required to implement a parametric equalizer. All op-amps in the unity gain mode with 100% feedback to the - input. The worst case scenario for any op-amp. Discreet op-amps are no panacea. The truth is one can take the design of any chip op amp and make it better by matching the transistors and duplicating the same exact design with discreets. It's what feedback and lead and lag compensation are doing to the sound. There's no such thing as a free lunch. There are only a handful of good designers that can design a decent mixer: Rupert Neve (my hero), Allistair Heaslett, John Curl. They can be counted on one of your hands.
Later! Jim

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