What to do with your digital mix & probable home master.

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I had an intersting online "conversation" with a chap last night.
He has a track that he's mixed and mastered for vinyl in 24bit reso. He sent that 24 bit file to a vinyl pressing plant and they made a "dub" on their Neuman lathe for him. It's was once done as a test pressing sort of thing. He intends to play the "dub" and rip the track from that so that his digital up/downloads will have "that vinyl sound:.
Interesting idea - at AUS$198 for a two sided 12" that will deteriorate fairly rapidly with use I'm not sure I'm all that keen on the idea.
 
Running the signal through a generation of vinyl isn't going to magically make it a hit record.

And how does he know what "mastered for vinyl" means? Mastering for LPs etc. is a specialty. You have to know how to manage things like stylus velocity and track width. You can't just shove the signal through Ozone and expect good results.
 
boulderoundguy,
I don't disagree with you. Mastered for vinyl, at the very least, would require the RIAA EQ settings as well as mastering skills. Perhps the chap had them mastered professionally.
What will running a signal through a generation of vinyl achieve? I assume it'll sound like it has come from a vinyl record.
It's an expensive way to have a one off vinyl album of one's vanity project.
I've done some reading and quite few DJs have a dub made of their remixes for clubs etc.
 
rayc said:
What will running a signal through a generation of vinyl achieve?
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Limit the bandwidth and dynamics, add surface noise etc. Some of that might be considered desirable by some people.
 
I could see going to vinyl if one stayed analog. To me, once you've gone digital kind of lost the purpose.
 
Going to vinyl to add something to the digital sound. I don't see the point but each to their own. I'd prefer the actual vinyl.
 
When you hear the original vinyl vs the cd remakes, it's quite evident in many cases that a significant portion of the 'charm and style of the 'record' was the extra mastering tweaks, done by the second set of ears, and for vinyl's limitations!
Ever stop to wonder how much the 'openness and spatial goodies of vinyl just might be that 400ms groove echo adds?
 
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