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- From: dbk@cs.umd.edu (Dan Kozak)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles
- Subject: Re: CD vs vinyl
- Message-ID: <62095@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:53:51 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.131150.26845@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov11.131150.26845@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcodogno@nyx.cs.du.edu (Maurizio Codogno) writes:
- >Yes, James, to make a CD is actually *cheaper* than to make a vinyl
- >album - in spite of the fact we are paying a lot more for CDs :-(
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- Sadly true, and partly responsible for my unwillingness to go CD. But
- I digress . . .
-
- >I remember a quote, I think from GM, which talked about the problems
- >he had in remastering _I want you_. In the long final ostinato,
- >eventually a white noise generator was added (from a moog?) Well,
- >the higher resolution of a CD at high frequency let the noise cover
- >all the music, so that they had to remix it...
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- I'd imagine that they simply EQed it during the mastering, not
- actually remixed it.
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- #dan
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