Vinyl/CD

[Fraser, Colin J]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Maddox [mailto:space_banana at hotmail.com]
> Sent: 28 May 1999 08:25
> To: synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
> Subject: Re: Vinyl/CD
> 
>   I took a track I had on cd AND vinyl, I sampled the vinyl 
> (at 44.116bit 
> stereo) and cut it on a CD... guess what, its STILL sounded 
> better than 
> version that was on CD...
> 
>   It cannot be sloppy mastering for the CD as I have Lots of 
> things on both 
> vinyl and Cd and they simply dont sound the same... listen to 
> Tangram (TD) 
> on CD and then the Vinyl..
> 
>   From this I must conclude that one of two things is happening..
> 
>   1) the Mastering for the Vinyl requires 'something' to be 
> done to the 
> audio for it to goto,
>   2) the Needle (or indeed the cutter, LP) 'Modifies' the 
> sound in some way.

My friends mastered tracks for their records on CD and then cut to vinyl.
The vinyl sounds nicer to me.
The mastering house ran the tracks thru a ridiculously expensive valve
compressor before cutting, to reduce the dynamic range for vinyl.
Maybe the compressor added the 'nice' to the sound.


Colin f