I Too Am A Mixwit
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Late night madness here. Electronic oddities and exotic word-play for your late night pleasure. The tracks are mis labeled in spots - so far I have only caught the second one Four Tet remixed by Sa-Ra
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Nice High Quality tape..I know you are serious! I would've preferred type 4. Looking forward to checking it out.
Ooh, I could almost never afford the SA-X 90's, only for soundboard quality boots.
Love that Latyrx track! Whoose on it?
Yeah, my dad subsidized a lot of chromium dioxide tapes. I used to dub cd's onto them. I was such an elitist tape-maker. Latyrx is Lyrics Born + Lateef the Truth Speaker.
Thanks for the tip Dach.
I thought there may be a guest or two. Sounded like George Clinton somewhere in there.
i always dreamed of being able to afford Metal tapes, but just never could afford them.
Oh, I got you. Nope no guest - it is off the Solesides Greatest Bumps album. Produced by Lyrics.
The metal tapes did seriously sound way better. I remember there was a whole hierarchy of who got a mix and what kind of tape I made it on. Some people had to settle for 60 minute brown Maxell's but other would get the 110 minute TDK CrO2 mixes.
the tape is not showing for me
I think the mixwit server is overburdened for the moment. I could not even log in to repost the code.
I was so happy when Tapes got phased out for boots, because there were so many tape snobs among Deadheads, and then you could burn a CD faster than a tape would get recorded. and it sounded better. But then people started the same shit with CD-R's. "I only use Taiyo yuden or Mitsui CD-R's" blah, blah, blah...same shit, different format.
Yeah, I think fidelity matters, but only when you have the sound system to detect defaults. But lets face it, people who listen for defects listent the THE WORST FUSION JAZZ ever, and that is all they can bear due to the unrelenting deficiencies of everything else. Poor souls! They talk about pure tones and know way too much about preamps and $3000 microphones.
I usually pick CD's by price and color. I am sure there is some difference. I do remember reading something here on MOG about CD mastering and how quality does matter, but when it comes to our end-user point I think it is all about how good your write-drive is.
Ick. I love fidelity as much as the next person, but some people go overboard. Sure, I'd love a McIntosh pre amp. But I'd like my family to eat as well. I have no room for stereo equipment that costs more than both of my cars. Add two youngins who could destroy those things in the blink of an eye.
Plus, some of these same people are the same guitar types that love a Paul Reed Smith guitar (one of the most soul-less sounding guitars ever built - cue wrath of PRS lovers everywhere).
Whatever happened to 24K master CD's?
Haha, too true. I had a broken stereo until my father graciously bought me a refurbished amp for father's day. I can't tell you how happy I am to be listening on real speakers. I could give a shit about fidelity right now. I could not afford to fix the old amp and have been listening to music entirely on laptop speakers or in the car for 7-8 months. Life is much better now.
No idea about the 24K cd's.
My music rarely makes it from the computer to the stereo, sadly. My car speakers are a joke, as well. Right now, just hearing music is a treat in itself.
I hear you. When I hooked up my new amp I included my 2.5 year old daughter, and when I turned it on she was so excited. But after playing it all day I had to turn it off in order to get some quiet and not over-do it. Just like my recent work and mogging post. If you over do it you might not appreciate it or at least you might not be able to tell what music detracts from. It is a great drug, but still can be just that, a drug. But when you want it and have the time, being able to hear the whole recording is so luxurious.
I still dream of finally getting all the right components together and having a kicking system, but it just seems so far away right now. I don't even own an iPod (well, my wife has a shuffle, but I need a real iPod). Someday, there would be speakers in every room, a great theater set up, and a media center computer with my whole library on it. Until then...sigh...
I share the dream. Proshecy on brother!
Well, I was ignorant enough to use many of these for mixes, but that may be the effects of my parents' tape ministry (they ran it for our church) rubbing off on me. No sense in buying anything less.
And I am a CD-R snob, but that's only cos I've heard those manufactured in Taiwan are a tad iffy. Can't say I've had issues with Fuji's from Japan.