LP's and sound quality

[fossyant]

have they stuck a load of 'bonus' tracks on it?

No, it's just 8 per side compilation and sounds rubbish. Shame really. I never knew as I haven't bought vinyl for a long time - we do have a new Madness Hit Parade LP album that our daughter bought us that plays fine. We usually stream it all, but it's nice to have a physical medium sometimes - just seen the Madness LP album is like £30 ! Blimey.

 

[swee'pea99]

Some of my best sounding LPs proudly boast 'DIGITAL' in big standout letters on the sleeve...words you don't see so much now that LPs have been re-revered as... analogue.

 

[MontyVeda]

No, it's just 8 per side compilation and sounds rubbish. Shame really. I never knew as I haven't bought vinyl for a long time - we do have a new Madness Hit Parade LP album that our daughter bought us that plays fine. We usually stream it all, but it's nice to have a physical medium sometimes - just seen the Madness LP album is like £30 ! Blimey.

Ah, I thought it was The Smiths The Smiths.

I seem to recall 23minutes per side was the maximum length for a good sounding LP... any longer than that and the grooves have to get shallower to fit more grooves onto the disk and the sound gets 'thinner'. The Now That's What I Call Music compilations were always cramming 25-30 minutes of music onto each side, and as a result they didn't sound too great either.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Got round to playing it, and the sound quality isn't great

Is oscillate wildy one of the songs?

 

[ktmbiker58]

I guess the album was 'remastered' from the 44.1 sample rate cd quality file. This standard is poor for editing,
probably not 'compression' as such.

When working as a sound engineer I used a minimum of 88.2 KHz, which presenves high frequency resonances and is almost as good as high-end analogue quality.

The early Smiths albums were poor recordings - nothing to do with the sample rate and most likely recorded on analog multitrack, the Sony DASH digital recorders used in the 80's were phenominally expensive -more than the average house - so I doubt the small recording studios used by Rough Trade Records had a digital recorder, only major studios like Abbey Road and CTS would have used digital recorders in the 1980s,
In fact CTS went all digital in the mid 80s with Studio 1 using ganged Sony recorders, Studio 1 was the studio used to record the music for Bond films.

 

[Drago]

Modern vinyl, even re issues of old recordings, isnt always of the best music production quality. It can be hit and miss.

 

[Drago]

have they stuck a load of 'bonus' tracks on it?

Its the Smiths. Itd be a bonus with track missing!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Its the Smiths. Itd be a bonus with track missing!

Heavens knows I’m miserable now.

 

[mistyoptic]

Heavens knows I’m miserable now.

Go play some Leonard Cohen then

 

[Drago]

Go play some Leonard Cohen then

We were just having a laugh but you took that too far!

 

[DRM]

That's The Smiths for you 😀

Heaven knows I'm miserable now.........they've remastered it!

 

[DRM]

Modern vinyl, even re issues of old recordings, isnt always of the best music production quality. It can be hit and miss.

To add insult to injury, they like to auto tune the vocal track as well

 

[tyred]

I pay a concert orchestra to play in my parlour of an evening. Sounds much better.

Doesn't everyone?

 

[Drago]

I get a jazz trio to play live in the downstairs lavvy.

 

[Webbo2]

I get Bertie our Cocker Spaniel to sing to us, he is just mastering the Mikado.😳😳😳😳