This may all be well and good, but I am never going on tour with you.
"Yes, there are people who buy such things, but those people are misguided. Using strong chemicals to force your body to submit is not a good strategy. Trying to sell things that are bad for the customer is not a good strategy either."
>What about the loss in quality from analog->wav? >It's negligible [pineight.com], but it's still a >measurable loss.
Yes, but it is somewhat unavoidable if we want to work with music in the digital realm. That is why it is so important to keep loss to a minimum; there are so many variables introduced by all the equipment needed to record live music in the field (see ZZYZX's posts in this thread).
As an etree user, I can let you in on a dirty little secret. Many of the shows traded on etree (and Furthur I assume, but I admit, I have not used it) were transferred (DAT > WAV) using inferior soundcards, which can introduce noise and drop samples. So these files are then compressed with SHN and spread through the net, with the errors justified, because the md5's match. Some soundcards are capable of bit-for-bit transfer, but so far, this knowledge is not really broadcast except amongst *really* obsessive music/tech geeks (dankseeds).
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"Yes, there are people who buy such things, but those people are misguided. Using strong chemicals to force your body to submit is not a good strategy. Trying to sell things that are bad for the customer is not a good strategy either."
>What about the loss in quality from analog->wav? >It's negligible [pineight.com], but it's still a >measurable loss. Yes, but it is somewhat unavoidable if we want to work with music in the digital realm. That is why it is so important to keep loss to a minimum; there are so many variables introduced by all the equipment needed to record live music in the field (see ZZYZX's posts in this thread). As an etree user, I can let you in on a dirty little secret. Many of the shows traded on etree (and Furthur I assume, but I admit, I have not used it) were transferred (DAT > WAV) using inferior soundcards, which can introduce noise and drop samples. So these files are then compressed with SHN and spread through the net, with the errors justified, because the md5's match. Some soundcards are capable of bit-for-bit transfer, but so far, this knowledge is not really broadcast except amongst *really* obsessive music/tech geeks (dankseeds).