Vinyl/CD

[Daniel Gendreau]

>   Have you ever noticed how a track you have on vinyl sounds
> better than a
> CD... to me the sound is more spacious and not so dead..

Danger Will Robinson... Danger... Audiophile alert! :) Just kidding. I
agree, They sound different.


>   I have tracks mastered to CD and to vinyl and the vinyl sound
> soooo much better than CD..
>
>   Is there a reason? is it something that is done in the
> production of the
> CD/LP or is it the way the needle on an LP works?

Did you engineer them yourself? I know from the limited studio engineering
that I have done that the post production process for CDs and LPs are very
different. You have to Eq and compress the sound differently for CDs(usually
very little) than for vinyl(lots) and this can drastically change the
ambience of a track.


>   My reason for asking is that if its the way a needle
> works,couldn't this
> be emulated in some way to give a "spatializer" module?
>
>   Paul (wacky ideas man)

I think its more than the sound reproduction mechanism. Its not that CDs are
inferior or better than LPs. I would be more prone to think that its post
production. Have you checked out these "Aural Exciter" modules? I havent,
but I have heard that they work very well.

No disrespect to vinyl, but I think with the right post production
processing, you could get your CD tracks to sound just as good as your
vinyl.

Perhaps a module could be made. Project anyone? Maybe some sort of
multi-band compression/expansion thing? Unfortunately, I have my hands full
at the moment.

Btw, I personally love vinyl. I DJ on the side and I use both CDs and vinyl.
-Dan G.