Anyone know where I can buy a good quality wax cylinder?

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Awww--- as the old saying goes "opinions are like noses--- everybody has one"

uhhh --- except Michael Jackson!
 
Back to Mono

Perhaps there's a lot to be said for going back to mono! People actually 'build' mono systems, don't they? Eliminates the necessity to sit in the 'sweet spot,' no more non-musical distractions (like swooping this-that-an'-fooken-other). No more wondering if that singer double tracked or not!

I had a "Back to mono" T-shirt once upon a time.

'Dark Side of the Moon' just wouldn't be the same though, would it?
 
i agree with most of what he said, except for the mono is better than stereo thing... thats plain silly. he sounds like he's an analog enthusiast - and we all know that analog means "identical"... so if you want something thats "identical" to the original sound waves coming from an instrument the best you can do is use stereo... those sound waves would not have come to your ear in mono if you were in the room when they were recorded.... like i said, i agree with most of what he said... but the mono is better than stereo is just plain silly.
 
Using Billy's logic a porno shot with a hand held video camera has more integrity then Gone With the Wind.[/QUOTE said:
I've seen The Anal Diary of Misty Rain WAY more than Gone with the Wind!

I'm all about technology if it's used right, but there are some great old recordings, and some great new ones. Which album sounds better: Led Zeppelin 1 or Audioslave's first. 2 different animals both rock.


tim
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surely it comes down to the ol' question of whether technology is your slave or your master? in a lot of ways, you could say recording to wax cylinders, or even earlier methods, is technology - what about writing music on manuscript paper? surely that's a form of 'recording music'! but if someone decided than when they're 'recording' on manuscript, they have to do something, simply because it's possible to do it, or for any other reason, then surely that 'technology' is being used badly, and so probably not going to sound 'real'.

i love listening to radiohead - they seem to have this brilliant way of using electronic instruments which says "right. we want this sound, where do we get it from?" not, "lets search for this huge bank of sounds on this keyboard until we find something that sounds 'cool'." they're using technology. but they're making the technology do what they want it to. sounds fine and dandy to me, even if you don't like the actual music.

i dont know, but maybe that's another way of looking at it.

or maybe i'm completely off track. if i am, don't quote me and say "Andy! you obviously don't understand! :D " just ignore me. SO much easier, and what i'm used to :p .

Andy
 
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