Re: [ARSCLIST] Long-term/preservation audio

[Brandon Burke <bburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I assure you there are many many rock bands who wouldn't do it any other way.
Period. Even without a label-supported budget. Some friends of mine
with--between you and me--very little commercial potential recorded onto two
inch tape last week.  I invite you to do some resarch on engineers like Steve
Albini (among others) who have hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in
vintage mics, reels, etc to record--of all things--punk rock in AAA. Say what
you will about the material, but anything he produces sounds amazing. And don't
forget that a lot of mom & pop rock labels still shell out for 180gm vinyl.....

Brandon Burke
Graduate Research Assistant
Digital Library Services
University of Texas at Austin
(512) 495-4566
bburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Quoting Karl Miller <lyaa071@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Aaron Luis Levinson wrote:
>
> > I can say from a commercial music business perspective that almost
> > every rock band
> > in the world has their album mastered to analog 1/2 or 1 inch tape.
> > Virtually all the existing Ampex ATR-100 series machines are being
> > restored and sold to high-end mastering and recording studios around
> > the world. I think it is quite likely that the "analog niche" in pro
> > recording will not disappear in the foreseeable future and that this
> > cottage industry would easily sustain a small business that was
> > dedicated to producing a small batch high quality product. The
> > mastering lathe will survive for the same reason and I for one am
> > thrilled that this is so. People have been predicting the demise of
> > analog for nearly twenty years and the fact it is still being predicted
> > seems to make the proponents of digital seem incrementally less
> > oracular with each passing year.
>
> I am reminded of the line...perhaps from a song recorded by Danny and the
> Juniors..."rock and roll is here to stay, it will never die." Well maybe
> analog is here to stay, but it can be quite expensive...
>
> Karl
>