Blissing Out on Vinyl

[chillytc]

Apologies up front - this is not a post about recording gear but about the love of music.

I pulled out my heavy vinyl pressing of Who's Next tonight and am listening to it now cranked on my 40lb aluminum block turntable, waiting for the wife to get home.

I'm not really a Who fan but if you were here in my living room you would have to agree this is simply awesome - the sound of a great band that played together constantly and just clicked. Simple arrangements (by 2008 standards) and wonderful body, warmth and articulation to the recording. I would *love* to get this drum sound in my recordings.

On side two now (Behind Blue Eyes) - gonna put on In Utero next. Or maybe the vinyl pressing of In Rainbows.

Such a shame that this old technology kicks the a$$ of currently ubiiquitous technology so badly when it comes to music reproduction . . .

[centurymantra]

Don ye thy asbestos blanket....













pssst....i LOOOVE vinyl

[theblue1]

There's nothing like the sound of a needle in the groove. You know, that sound when there's nothing else going on. Just that low, steady sound.

You gotta love it!

[Phaidon]

Originally Posted by theblue1

There's nothing like the sound of a needle in the groove. You know, that sound when there's nothing else going on. Just that low, steady sound.

You gotta love it!

Oh yeah!!!

[steelyfan]

All bout it! My weekends are spent at Garage sales and thrift stores looking through old records bins and finding wonderful music I never thought existed. Records sound good and are just good old fashion fun!

[Marlowe]

Hell, yeah! I've really been enjoying the fruits of my local cheap vinyl purveyor lately. I love the low risk music dabbling as well as keeping the old vinyl collection in play.

Surface noise and surface maintenance aside, I really love that sound. Vinyl sounds like instruments are more "solid" in the stereo field than CDs.

Downsides: getting up every twenty minutes to change the side and not being able to judge the condition visually as you can with a CD (sometimes a minty-looking LP has plenty of little crackles).

[Xian00]

It's been a great listening to vinyl again. I had an interesting experience last weekend when I had some friends over for a BBQ. At first I had some Itunes playlists going, then I pulled out Dylan's Blonde on Blonde and stuck it on my releatively cheap turntable. As "You go Your Way and I Go Mine" blasted from the speakers everyone suddenly listened close and commented on how great it sounded (most of them are not even Dylan fans!).

Their heads started to bop, and seemed to really be "feeling" the music. I was pretty amazed at the reaction, actually.

[Kenny Gioia]

I actually prefer vinyl on you tube.

Check it out.

YouTube - carole king - its too late

There's a ton of these.

Who needs a turntable?

[ProducerBoy]

I've been sad. My needle broke and I haven't had a chance to replace it.
Man...nothing sounds like vinyl. Spacious, three dimensional... I even think my vinyl tracks ripped to my iPod sound better than the tracks bought off iTunes.