I use strictly vinyl when I dj, but I can't say that I won't purchase a
final scratch set up in the future. The convenience of carrying a
lighter bag is my main reasoning for it, especially since when I play
out, I always bring close to 100 records. Plus you don't have the risk
of scratching the rare records that you dropped some coin on. Also,
look at all of the edits that Surgeon does on tracks that he plays that
he never presses, it gets too costly if you want to press every single
remix you create.
As far as the purity of music take on this and everything - I don't
believe any of that. If you're trying to listen to something as close
to the original recording as possible, then you wouldn't play it out at
+/- x%. That takes the music out of key. It's still mathematically
correct in that the frequency between the steps on that scale are the
same, but the scale is shifted up or or down, thus not making it truly A
minor, or whatever key it was originally played in; it would become A
minor +26Hz, or whatever the math would come out to be depending on the
percent change of the pitch shift.
Also, a lot of music is being recorded as strictly digital these days,
studios exist without a single reel of analog tape. Recording to a
laptop and seeing the drawn out waveform does not make the file analog,
since hard drives are written to digitally, the .wav file is still a
digitally sampled waveform. So if it is originally a digital recording,
why convert it to analog, there's no gain in sound quality, you can't
add depth to a sound after it's already created. Besides, isn't the
"art" of djing, more based on adding your own twist on other people's
music? If that includes doing reworks, and edits of a track using
digital software, and digital waveform editors, then so be it, that's at
the remixer's discretion. Finally, I'd say that even the biggest
audiophiles would have quite a challenge ahead of them in deciphering
the difference between a piece of vinyl, and a properly encoded record
using lame at a reasonable sample rate and bit depth when it's played
over a loud, noisy, and often boomy club system.
Not trying to argue on the matter at all, just trying to voice my
opinion on the whole digital dj realm. I used to be so ridiculously
anti-final scratch, that I got into an argument with Richie Hawtin about
it. He made very valid points, but I was so passionate about my stance
on the matter, that I failed to really take them into account at the
time. I just think that it's inevitable that djing is going to go
digital, whether it be for better or for worse.
-Andy
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This has me thinking about what music means to people today - seems to be
more of a commodity than a communication between two or more living beings
All the digital formats remove parts of the sound spectrum and change the
sound of the music - some may say it's crisper but the human ear isn't
designed for it
I would propose that we don't react the same way, on a physical level, to
digital vs analogue sound. Our ears are designed by nature to take in all
of the sound in the environment - ambient and active.
What I don't understand is why people want to have less compression on
their formats but still think that digital is the wave of the future. If
you want less compression then just use analogue sound sources.
That to me is saying that analogue is the best because it's the closest
recording to actually being there but we're going to cut out more of the
spectrum because it's the way forward.
Digital is convenient for producing music but it's no where near analogue
for reproduction. It never will be. Why are we allowing ourselves to be
led by the Pied Piper of the established music industry toward more music
as commodity?
MEK
"robin"
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02/10/04 07:34 AM Subject: RE: (313) final scratch
-> Single sales are now the lowest they have ever been, in fact
-> I was in a
-> studio last week and the first thing they knocked out wasn't
-> a rough mix, it
-> was a fcuking ringtone!
nevermind the death of techno...this is the death of music!
robin...
