Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

[Strat]

Really though this just means we dont have to suffer through a multitude of re releases and remastering over the years to come?

[Birds in Hell]

[Strat]

No more eagles rereleases.

[tragabigzanda]

[tragabigzanda]

[LoathedVermin72]

Including autotune is fucking dumb, trag

[Strat]

Including autotune is fucking dumb, trag

Autotune is awful you stupid millennial.

[doug rr]

leaving out lightning bolt is fucking dumb, trag

[LoathedVermin72]

I also think this is a bit myopic:

I'm not sure the masters are that big a deal; I imagine they've been digitally archived already, and as long as that was done really well, and people can forget their emotional attachment to physical media for the sake of this issue, I'm not sure there's much of anything really "lost" with those 2-track master tape.

This feels sorta like saying we don’t need an original camera negative as long as it’s been transferred to a digital master. But that’s digital technology right now - we have no idea what kind of tech will be available in the future. Imagine if all we had was a 2000-era telecine DVD master when a negative was lost. We’ve progressed so far since then.

I’m not an audiophile so I can’t say this is an exact apples-to-apples comparison, but losing the original source material like this definitely seems bad to me.

[LoathedVermin72]

Including autotune is fucking dumb, trag

Autotune is awful you stupid millennial.

This post is close-minded and dumb you ancient rockist

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[LoathedVermin72]

I also think this is a bit myopic:
[quote="tragabigzanda”]I'm not sure the masters are that big a deal; I imagine they've been digitally archived already, and as long as that was done really well, and people can forget their emotional attachment to physical media for the sake of this issue, I'm not sure there's much of anything really "lost" with those 2-track master tape.

This feels sorta like saying we don’t need an original camera negative as long as it’s been transferred to a digital master. But that’s digital technology right now - we have no idea what kind of tech will be available once the future. Imagine if all we had a 2000-era telecine DVD master when a negative was lost. We’ve progressed so far since then.

I’m not an audiophile so I can’t say this is an exact apples-to-apples comparison, but losing the original source material like this definitely seems bad to me.

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But if it's already backed up with high fidelity digital audio, they can just put it on to new tape.[/quote][/quote][/quote]
Like I said, I’m not an audiophile, but surely this can’t be a truly lossless process that would result in a completely identical master?

[Strat]

Including autotune is fucking dumb, trag

Autotune is awful you stupid millennial.

This post is close-minded and dumb you ancient rockist

I actually think Justin Vernon used it perfectly to help tell his stories on Bon Iver's last record.

Its often too used as a crutch though.

[EJ]

Including autotune is fucking dumb, trag

Autotune is awful you stupid millennial.

This post is close-minded and dumb you ancient rockist

Do you think Jim was autotuned in Season 9?

[Strat]

Other than the romanticism of losing such historical items, this doesn't seem to be that huge of a deal to me.

[LoathedVermin72]

[Strat]

hip hop sucks since 1994

[Birds in Hell]

Nobody knows how much of the material had been digitally transferred, it's suggested that only a fraction may have been. In any case, it seems as though there wasn't any kind of comprehensive catalogue for what was on the tapes held. Even for those which were transferred, when and how did it occur? A digital transfer made in 2002 (for example) is likely inferior to one made more recently and there's now no possibility that any of that material can be archived or accessed in the future in greater fidelity.

This is a heartbreaking, staggering loss of 20th century culture. I can't think of anything comparable.

[LoathedVermin72]

hip hop sucks since 1994

Oldheads are the rockists of hip-hop

[tragabigzanda]