As I’ve been advising of late many cassettes from the mid 80s on 🔜 are digitally remastered. Kind of Blue, about 8 of the Stones repertoire, most if not all Led Zeppelin, etc. Vanguard did some including two Country Joe and the Fish, I have all of the above. I’m just scratching the surface. Digalog was one trade name for digital cassettes. Perhaps many that aren’t advertised as digital actually are. Digital had arrived and cassettes we’re not going to be left out of the technology. Even the plastic cassettes had evolved by the mid 80s. Cassettes are the best sounding digital format. Fabulous!
is it possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl
sam here with another question. is it possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl ? i realize i'm gonna get ripped a new a-hole however this is not a joke question. honest answers please i can take the heat
as crazy as it sounds it seams perfectly logical to me. now here is what i did using my 2013 dell pc windows 7 32bit.
using foobar 2000 with the convolver dsp filter i made an impulse file consisting of a 1 second wave file extracted at 32 / 88
from the intro to pink floyds us and them on 1st press vintage vinyl u.k harvest label. just the surface noise before the music
starts and applied the impulse file to a digital album to see if the digital album now sounds like vintage vinyl.here's the results
not sure if i made the digital audio sound worse or really what i achieved ? feedback will help me decide if i should
abandoned this pipe dream and move on. source is digital download flac 16/44 same source for both before/after samples.
audio sample 1: http://pc.cd/GB3
audio sample 2 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/7eA
audio sample 3: http://pc.cd/7DP7
audio sample 4 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/bw2
audio sample 5: http://pc.cd/3etrtalK
audio sample 6 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/lTf7
as crazy as it sounds it seams perfectly logical to me. now here is what i did using my 2013 dell pc windows 7 32bit.
using foobar 2000 with the convolver dsp filter i made an impulse file consisting of a 1 second wave file extracted at 32 / 88
from the intro to pink floyds us and them on 1st press vintage vinyl u.k harvest label. just the surface noise before the music
starts and applied the impulse file to a digital album to see if the digital album now sounds like vintage vinyl.here's the results
not sure if i made the digital audio sound worse or really what i achieved ? feedback will help me decide if i should
abandoned this pipe dream and move on. source is digital download flac 16/44 same source for both before/after samples.
audio sample 1: http://pc.cd/GB3
audio sample 2 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/7eA
audio sample 3: http://pc.cd/7DP7
audio sample 4 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/bw2
audio sample 5: http://pc.cd/3etrtalK
audio sample 6 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/lTf7
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A couple things stick in my craw about digital, not much air and not as squeaky as analog. There is the overly aggressive compression of a heck of a lot of CDs to consider, too. Even LPs and hi res downloads can suffer some serious compression, according to the unofficial dynamic range database. Analog can be liked to heroin for the junkie whereas digital is kind of like methodone, a heroin substitute for when the dealer is out of town. 🤗 |
guitarsam OP sam here and let me say that i hate the side effects of vintage vinyl (1970’s) however the sound is alive . i have not tried an expensive dac and that might be an answer? the fact that vinyl can’t be brick wall compressed for the loudness wars has a lot to do with vinyl sounding alive? >>>>I’m afraid the loudness wars has affected vinyl too. The overly aggressive compression occurs during mastering so no format or media is exempt. So when you examine the Unofficial Dynamic Range database you’ll find that vinyl oft suffers the same fate as CD, also SACD, BLU-RAY, hi res and even SHM-CD from Japan. Having said that the one media that has largely escaped the loudness wars is cassettes. |