Vinyl spectral alteration was: Forbidden Plane

[pharding at mail.ndirect.co.uk]

Low bass on vinyl needs to be in mono otherwise it's hard for the 
mastering engineer to get a loud cut. loud stereo bass tends to 
cause bad tracking of the stylus [ makes the stylus jump ]

the lack of dynamic range of vinyl means the music gets compressed at 
the mastering stage.For many styles [ esp rock and dance ] this 
compression adds more weight and punch to the record....this is a 
major factor in why many records sound better then their CD 
equivalents.

Even more OT ..  
Rupert Neve  [ i wish i could design audio circuits like him! ] in a 
recent interview in Audio Media magazine was talking about some 
Japanese research that showed that the human brain responds to CDs 
and digital audio in a different way to analogue vinyl and 
instead of feeling relaxed ,listening to digital audio causes the 
kind of emotional response in the brain associated with 
discomfort,frustration and even anger.
  Maybe this is why digital synths can drive you mad??

i can dig out the mag if people are interested?

Paul Harding

> More OT:
> Does anyone know of any study on how vinyl is altering the spectral
> content of a recording?
> Since I have recorded and produced a few vinyl records I know that back
> then  everything under 50Hz was mono-coupled and had a slight compresssion
> added onto it, or rather, it was ran thru a soft-limiter then mixed with
> the mid + higher frequencies. 
> Shouldn't the higher frequencies be "automatically" compressed or atlest
> have a nonlinear freq response due to limitations of the vinyl itself? (It
> could raise a  question: Does CD have a linear freq. respone?)
>  
> I've seen these vinyl-plugins for audiosequencers like Cubase, that adds
> cracks and probably alters freq response aswell-it could be fun to have a
> "add vinyl sound" module in the modular:)
> 
> ---Per
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