Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-05 Thread Neil Wiernik
tom thanks for the kind words but NO THANKS!!! Im giving relivent information to the coversation that is relivent to MY life that just HAPPENS to relate to this thread like dale said this is a SECURITY issue its some thing I have seen 10s of times on lists and

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-05 Thread /0
...that sound you hear is neil breaking his foot off in tom cox's tomcox Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tom thanks for the kind words but NO THANKS!!! Im giving relivent information to the coversation that is relivent to MY life that just HAPPENS to relate to this thread

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-05 Thread Neil Wiernik
LMAO On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, /0 wrote: ...that sound you hear is neil breaking his foot off in tom cox's tomcox Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tom thanks for the kind words but NO THANKS!!! Im giving relivent information to the coversation that is relivent to MY life that just

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-05 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On 9/5/06, /0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...that sound you hear is neil breaking his foot off in tom cox's tomcox it sounded to me like more blatant self promotion. but then again i guess its all subjective, right? suckers. tom

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread Neil Wiernik
about audio detail /12 - Original Message - From: Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 11:43 PM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. you under estimate my knowlege sir get off dial up and listen to what Im talking about once your out

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread Neil Wiernik
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:18 PM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. fair enough go here http://www.myspace.com/nawmusic the tracks from the green nights orange days record are prime examples of my music mastered BY twerk sounding warm so first listen to mid winter sailboat ride

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate - the imitation of sound

2006-09-04 Thread chthonic streams
kent williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Honestly, what matters besides the actual compositions? maybe i'm taking this one line too much out of context, but that sounds like a frighteningly traditionalist rhetorical question. in one sense i do agree, hence my bringing up that there's

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate - the imitation of sound

2006-09-04 Thread chthonic streams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Self-appointed golden ears dismiss feeling and creativity, because anyone can appreciate those qualities in music (though not always at first blush, since some tastes are acquired), whereas it takes a genuine superior class of lonely douche to prioritize the production

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread Dale Lawrence
sound i mentioned earlier? i'll pretend i havent heard anyone saying boiling hot today .. /12 - Original Message - From: Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:18 PM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. fair enough go here http

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate - the imitation of sound

2006-09-04 Thread kent williams
Well, don't be too frightened. All I'm saying is ... well it's right there in the Bible Matthew 7:16: By their fruits ye shall know them. It's been a long way around through a sometimes interesting debate, but the bottom line for me is that it's an argument that pretty silly. I make tracks, so

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread Dale Lawrence
Why is it that when I make a good solid argument it somehow becomes pointless... and then the reason isn't even backed up with anything else that is solid? It's like the decision was made long ago, and when the logic is at point blank range it still isn't acknowledged. There are a bunch of

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread kent williams
Because arguments aren't fair. If you make a point that refutes something someone says, they can always say that wasn't actually what they said. Or they can take one thing out of your statement and provide what they think is a counter-example, and then use that to think they've refuted

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread v12
) The Laptop Debate. He's in Poland, give him a break. The whole world isn't like Canada or the US. On 9/3/06, Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you under estimate my knowlege sir get off dial up and listen to what Im talking about once your out of the internet dark ages we can

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread v12
: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. oh ok then he can get my stuff at the local shop in polan cargo services poland On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, kent williams wrote: He's in Poland, give him a break. The whole world isn't like Canada or the US. On 9/3/06, Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread v12
to accept reality as it is. /12 - Original Message - From: Dale Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 2:21 AM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. It's myspace... those are mp3's... low quality mp3's at that because that is all that myspace

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread v12
? congrats kid, now you got my nearly fallen off my chair :) and dont forget to update your myspace pics, kiddies /12 - Original Message - From: Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 1:40 AM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. ok now your

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread Neil Wiernik
:18 PM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. fair enough go here http://www.myspace.com/nawmusic the tracks from the green nights orange days record are prime examples of my music mastered BY twerk sounding warm so first listen to mid winter sailboat ride, and penny fishing north of main

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread Neil Wiernik
to know.. /12 - Original Message - From: Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 1:40 AM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. oh ok then he can get my stuff at the local shop in polan cargo services poland On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, kent

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread Neil Wiernik
fallen off my chair :) and dont forget to update your myspace pics, kiddies /12 - Original Message - From: Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 1:40 AM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. ok now your being a twat my stuff is released

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread Klaas-Jan Jongsma
Ok, now we have come to the point were we are insulting people, this threat is now officially dead (Godwin law's maybe?). Lets stop this, don't reply to this anymore and think it never happened. KJ On 4-sep-2006, at 6:43, v12 wrote: what for? quality toilet paper is widely available and

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread v12
: Monday, September 04, 2006 11:04 AM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. Ok, now we have come to the point were we are insulting people, this threat is now officially dead (Godwin law's maybe?). Lets stop this, don't reply to this anymore and think it never happened. KJ On 4-sep-2006, at 6:43

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread v12
march 2007, i'll send someone for it.. remind me a week before if you could... /12 - Original Message - From: Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 7:30 AM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. dont bother you wont like it regardless

FW: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message- From: chthonic streams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 September 2006 15:00 To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. still trying to get this one through...did some edits so we'll see. For your info (if you don't already realise) I'm

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-03 Thread kent williams
I don't presume to know how people live their lives; the most one can address is what people actually write to the list. It sure must be a slow month for new releases. On 9/2/06, Dale Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You live your life based on oversimplified stereotypes.

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread chthonic streams
Not to stir the pot, stir please, what else are email discussion lists for? That being a lot of my favorite Detroit and Chicago tracks were made in a certain way that I think made them more exciting. Specifically, it's setting up a bunch of gear and recording it live to two track, with one

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Wiernik
I acctually also want to my view that supports what I said as a seasoned producer and that goes along with autecher's view is that not only is it the person whos making the tack A LARGE and let me repeat A LARGE amount of creit for warmth goes to the person who is matering the final product

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate - sound

2006-09-03 Thread chthonic streams
but maybe we haven't seen the Ron Hardy or Derrick May of the laptop yet. But it's silly to argue that computers, in and of themselves, are the problem. no, true. it's the lifeless,stiff, ear-scratching bright sound that is the problem.. it's like a plastic doll,with or without make-up it's

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread chthonic streams
Not to stir the pot, stir please, what else are email discussion lists for? That being a lot of my favorite Detroit and Chicago tracks were made in a certain way that I think made them more exciting. Specifically, it's setting up a bunch of gear and recording it live to two track, with one

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Wiernik
bizz WRONG jelinek uses live instrumentation for the most part hes only used samples for a small amount of recordings and acctually they are samples of his own music playing On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, v12 wrote: someone mentioned jelinek,ok he can sound really sweet sometimes, but it's

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Wiernik
acctually let me explain a little better about what I emant below... reuses live instrumentation that he plays as sound source material for his music... its not just him sampleing from records... how how he samples this stuff and gets it on to his machines are all up to him from my discussions

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread v12
Ive had tracks mastered by twerk that suddenly went from luck warm to boiling hot.. simply because he knows what he is doing ... ^honestly, i gave you examples/titles as i know what i am saying. if you say the opposite -pls stop the general statements about some ghost recordings and give

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-03 Thread Dale Lawrence
At 10:25 PM 9/2/2006, you wrote: I don't presume to know how people live their lives; the most one can address is what people actually write to the list. It sure must be a slow month for new releases. On 9/2/06, Dale Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You live your life based on

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread Klaas-Jan Jongsma
Analog vs. Digital, PC vs. Mac, Richie vs. Jeff Please stop discussing this, there is no point, there will be no winner. It is all about whether you like digital sounding productions or not. It is not about good or bad it is about like it or not. On 3-sep-2006, at 8:15, v12 wrote: Ive

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread /0
, September 03, 2006 12:46 AM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. I acctually also want to my view that supports what I said as a seasoned producer and that goes along with autecher's view is that not only is it the person whos making the tack A LARGE and let me repeat A LARGE amount of creit

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread /0
@hyperreal.org Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 12:57 AM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. bizz WRONG jelinek uses live instrumentation for the most part hes only used samples for a small amount of recordings and acctually they are samples of his own music playing On Sat, 2 Sep 2006

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread v12
that have played live with him most of his samples are from old jazz records (ie loop finding jazz records) - Original Message - From: Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 12:57 AM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread BenoƮt Pueyo
To me, James Holden is a good example of good (and deep) music made with computers... One of the funny thing is that he uses a free software taht i also use at home, and that everybody who has seen that working say hey with that kindof soft, nobody will ever produce any good track. --

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate./loop fin ding jazz recs

2006-09-03 Thread v12
PROTECTED] To: /0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 2:56 PM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. loop finding jazz records sounded nice as far as i remember but the traks were too long (a matter of taste though) i liked

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread chthonic streams
still trying to get this one through...did some edits so we'll see. Not to stir the pot, stir please, what else are email discussion lists for? That being a lot of my favorite Detroit and Chicago tracks were made in a certain way that I think made them more exciting. Specifically, it's

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread chthonic streams
certain plugins go a long way toward warming and fattening up music - but if whatever it's affecting just isn't there in the first place, it's not going to be the same. in recorded sound, the most important element is the source, followed by the initial capturing of that source, and then by

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Wiernik
fair enough go here http://www.myspace.com/nawmusic the tracks from the green nights orange days record are prime examples of my music mastered BY twerk sounding warm so first listen to mid winter sailboat ride, and penny fishing north of main the 2 tracks there as part of the unrelease titled

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Wiernik
] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 7:07 AM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. acctually let me explain a little better about what I emant below... reuses live instrumentation that he plays as sound source material for his music... its not just him sampleing from records

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Wiernik
12:57 AM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. bizz WRONG jelinek uses live instrumentation for the most part hes only used samples for a small amount of recordings and acctually they are samples of his own music playing On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, v12 wrote: someone mentioned jelinek

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate - the imitation of sound

2006-09-03 Thread chthonic streams
I honestly think the same thing is possible with Laptops, but maybe we haven't seen the Ron Hardy or Derrick May of the laptop yet. But it's silly to argue that computers, in and of themselves, are the problem. agreed. a big problem when switching over to computer, just like from analog to

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread v12
Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. and why does he not fit??? becasue you say so? his a digital artist samples or not he fits... On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, v12 wrote: did i say samples from records? and what did i ask for? he doesnt fit if you read carefully... - Original

(313) Re: *****SPAM***** Re: (313) The Laptop Debate - the imitation of sound

2006-09-03 Thread fab.
crap, just unripe. time will tell. f. - Original Message - From: chthonic streams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:40 PM Subject: *SPAM* Re: (313) The Laptop Debate - the imitation of sound Spam detection software, running

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate - the imitation of sound

2006-09-03 Thread chthonic streams
so what you are saying basically is that laptop and computer music are still in relative infancy so the majority (or at least a large number) of the users/musicians still haven't progressed much beyond the discovery stage. philosophically speaking therefore, this music is not inherently

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread Dale Lawrence
Real world synthesizers always come with presets, and those presets are usually the most awful sounds you'll ever hear coming out of a keyboard. They're overdone and geared toward a mainstream audience of bells and whistles. Good artists don't use these presets but harness their gear back

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Wiernik
doesnt fit. if it wasnt for his analog sources he wouldnt get anywhere. - Original Message - From: Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:19 PM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. and why does he not fit??? becasue you say so? his

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread /0
yeah maybe after you're done signing autographs you could grill him about his technique ;p - Original Message - From: Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 11:24 AM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. I know loop finding

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Wiernik
: Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 11:24 AM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. I know loop finding was samples from old jazz records but his other material is all live instrumentation sampled and manipulated... from what hes told me maybe hes

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate - the imitation of sound

2006-09-03 Thread kent williams
Honestly, what matters besides the actual compositions? I'm enough of a studio rat to care about things are produced, but the actual method that someone uses is irrelevant, except as it facilitates the result. It's not like you can't make sh*t tracks with analog gear. I program computers for a

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-03 Thread Dale Lawrence
At 01:31 PM 9/3/2006, you wrote: On 9/3/06, Dale Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...but its really just irrelevant nonsense. when did we start talking about your music? tmo I speak from my own experience. Should I pretend I don't make music? Would that make my opinions more valid?

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-03 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On 9/3/06, Dale Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I intimidate you? not a chance. Neil is having dinner with Jan Jelinek... and he can ask a question pertinent to a discussion about him personally. Should he pretend he'll never meet the guy and that he himself works at McDonalds?...

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate - the imitation of sound

2006-09-03 Thread Brian Prince
kent williams wrote: Honestly, what matters besides the actual compositions? I'm enough of a studio rat to care about things are produced, but the actual method that someone uses is irrelevant, except as it facilitates the result. It's not like you can't make sh*t tracks with analog gear.

RE: (313) The Laptop Debate - the imitation of sound

2006-09-03 Thread Ralf Gill \(healthAlliance\)
I'm confused now. Can someone summarise or conclude this thread for me. Is analogue better than digital or vice versa??? -Original Message- From: Brian Prince [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 4 September 2006 6:35 a.m. To: kent williams Cc: list 313 Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop

RE: (313) The Laptop Debate - the imitation of sound

2006-09-03 Thread Brian Prince
Ralf Gill \(healthAlliance\) wrote: I'm confused now. Can someone summarise or conclude this thread for me. Is analogue better than digital or vice versa??? Good music is better than bad music. - bp

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Wiernik
thanks dale you took the words right out of my mouth!!! :) On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Dale Lawrence wrote: At 01:31 PM 9/3/2006, you wrote: On 9/3/06, Dale Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...but its really just irrelevant nonsense. when did we start talking about your music? tmo I speak

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread v12
sweet fng jesus ;/ In a computer it is the same thing, there are a lot of elements that are geared to that same mainstream audience, as well as all of those garbage loop and prefab rhythm programs/plug-ins, and you have to get past that just like with real world synths and make your own

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread v12
- From: Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:18 PM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. fair enough go here http://www.myspace.com/nawmusic the tracks from the green nights orange days record are prime examples of my music mastered BY twerk

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Wiernik
PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:18 PM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. fair enough go here http://www.myspace.com/nawmusic the tracks from the green nights orange days record are prime examples of my music mastered BY twerk sounding warm so first listen

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-03 Thread kent williams
? i'll pretend i havent heard anyone saying boiling hot today .. /12 - Original Message - From: Neil Wiernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:18 PM Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate. fair enough go here http://www.myspace.com

(313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-02 Thread kent williams
Not to stir the pot, but I've been practicing making tracks with a computer for 12 years. In that time I've come up with 3 tracks I felt confident about putting on vinyl, and I've had 3 or 4 tracks on Internet comps. Terrence Parker took one of my tracks for his 'Maximum Ice' CD, for which I

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-02 Thread v12
but maybe we haven't seen the Ron Hardy or Derrick May of the laptop yet. But it's silly to argue that computers, in and of themselves, are the problem. no, true. it's the lifeless,stiff, ear-scratching bright sound that is the problem.. it's like a plastic doll,with or without make-up it's

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-02 Thread kent williams
Record your mixdowns to a reel to reel. Or better yet, cut it to a 78 lacquer. Fetishing old gear is ultimately as irrelevant as fetishing new gear. It sounds like you've been listening to the wrong records. You don't have to convince me that analog recordings sound nice, but anyone who makes

RE: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-02 Thread Ralf Gill \(healthAlliance\)
Is it an analogue or a digital laptop? -Original Message- From: kent williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 2 September 2006 1:30 p.m. To: list 313 Subject: (313) The Laptop Debate. Not to stir the pot, but I've been practicing making tracks with a computer for 12 years

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-02 Thread Martin Dust
snip And they were doing it before there was anyone telling them how to do it. They had to master an unwieldy, complicated instrument, and make it sing. And there was always that moments of excitement in the track that would be irretrievable if the DA30 ate the DAT. You can still get the

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-02 Thread Neil Wiernik
I agree with martin this whole laptop or computer music is not as warm sounding as analogue gear is a compleatly irrellivent argument. I have ehard tracks made using all sorts of tools and its not the tools that make some thing warm or cool soundings its the maker ... the person behind the

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-02 Thread v12
show me a 100% pc-made trak that would sound even close to rod modell's deepchord 14 or rhythm n sound's carrier. speaking of rod - any of his traks on ecchocord. or afx's blue calx or laricheard or mike parker's caesura 1 or andres' LP on mahogani/ kdj 29 either you're all joking..or you

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-02 Thread v12
and i dont say digital is bad - not at all - i.e. look at convextion..much of his stuff sounds really good. i dont know about his whole audio signal circuitry but i remember he was using a digital jd800 as sound source for many of his track.. it aint deepchord,but still much more ear pleasing

RE: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-02 Thread Robert Taylor
This laptop debate is very boring - it's too cold and emotionless - it doesn't have enough warmth and crackle :P -Original Message- From: v12 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 September 2006 17:30 To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices. and i

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-02 Thread Brian Prince
it's the lifeless,stiff, ear-scratching bright sound that is the problem.. It's possible to make a digital track sound convincingly analog in any decent software package. Soft saturation on the EQ, tape compression, add a little hiss ... nobody will know the difference. Record an analog track to

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-02 Thread Brian Prince
v12 wrote: the stuff i got on warp cassettes [tri repetae/chiastic slide] appeared to sound miserable on cd and so on blablabla That's because you're listenting to two different mastering pipelines, dude. Record the tapes to CD and they'll sound identical. Otherwise, I've got a $6000 power

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-02 Thread kent williams
I'd cite some of Lusine's work, and Jan Jellinek, and Fennesz Endless Summer, but you might not like them, or hear the musicality and warmth I do in them. I love the way cassettes sound too -- but then I end up digitizing that sound. Sad fact is everything goes through a computer at some point.

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-02 Thread Jernej Marusic
17:30 To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices. and i dont say digital is bad - not at all - i.e. look at convextion..much of his stuff sounds really good. i dont know about his whole audio signal circuitry but i remember he was using a digital jd800

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-02 Thread Dale Lawrence
Don't try too hard to fight the tool you are using. Keyboards came out and people did try to use them to make 'real' sounds, and as the technology progressed they were able to achieve that to some degree-- that's when old-school analog came back into fashion People started to celebrate

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-02 Thread v12
You should print the thread and read it on paper, that will add some warmth to it :) or even transcribe it down to paper and than read it :)) ^guess what - if a post is longer than say 15-20 lines i do print it. unless it's some pointless nonsense by someone i know he couldnt come up with

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-02 Thread chthonic streams
Not to stir the pot, stir please, what else are email discussion lists for? That being a lot of my favorite Detroit and Chicago tracks were made in a certain way that I think made them more exciting. Specifically, it's setting up a bunch of gear and recording it live to two track, with one

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-02 Thread v12
It's possible to make a digital track sound convincingly analog in any decent software package. Soft saturation on the EQ, tape compression, add a little hiss ... nobody will know the difference. nobody? it's all futile attempt - analog devices lacked stability,that meant milions un-copyable

(313) The Laptop Debate - 2nd try

2006-09-02 Thread chthonic streams
Not to stir the pot, stir please, what else are email discussion lists for? That being a lot of my favorite Detroit and Chicago tracks were made in a certain way that I think made them more exciting. Specifically, it's setting up a bunch of gear and recording it live to two track, with one

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-02 Thread Dale Lawrence
^guess what - if a post is longer than say 15-20 lines i do print it. unless it's some pointless nonsense by someone i know he couldnt come up with anything relevant) I hate that. Just delete that sewage.

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate.

2006-09-02 Thread chthonic streams
Not to stir the pot, stir please, what else are email discussion lists for? That being a lot of my favorite Detroit and Chicago tracks were made in a certain way that I think made them more exciting. Specifically, it's setting up a bunch of gear and recording it live to two track, with one

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-02 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On 9/2/06, Dale Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^guess what - if a post is longer than say 15-20 lines i do print it. unless it's some pointless nonsense by someone i know he couldnt come up with anything relevant) I hate that. Just delete that sewage. i think he might have been referring

Re: (313) The Laptop Debate/other digital devices.

2006-09-02 Thread Dale Lawrence
At 05:25 PM 9/2/2006, you wrote: On 9/2/06, Dale Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^guess what - if a post is longer than say 15-20 lines i do print it. unless it's some pointless nonsense by someone i know he couldnt come up with anything relevant) I hate that. Just delete that sewage. i