i guarentee you if you put on an mp3 and vinyl copy of the same tune from warp you will notice a big difference.
yes the tunes are usually from samplers and some digital virtual analog synths which are digits however a lot of it is also from actual analog synths that were never digits, and i know people like squarepusher (on his older machine at least) was using an analog board and an 8 track reel to reel tape machine to actually record the stuff, thus the nice analog warmth and fatness (which does not exist in purely digital form going straight to mp3 from a hard drive) is intakt.
mp3's are about as far from vinyl sound quality as you can possibly get. and i say this as the enthusiastic owner of a large vinyl collection and a 40 gig ipod. mp3's/aac's are great because of space and downloadability, that's it.
the corperate structure itself breeds mediocrity as was even aknowledged, NOT unions, corperations do not give a shit about you, the gap between rich and even middle class is at an all time high, people at the top don't know shit, we NEED unions to even begin to even it out a little bit. the only thing they understand is profit, if they are forced to lose profit because of how they treat their workers THEN they will change and only then. if it is on an individual basis everyone is replacable, they can divide and conquer, you don't like the job so they can your ass and hire someone who will put up with their bullshit.
does this improve the situation? no, it just keeps the standard of living low for those in the low class and high for those in the high class. people do not acend in this business based on merit, anyone who works in one of these corperations can see that, they rise based on politics and who they know, and as was pointed out, seniority.
unions get a bad rap because people associate them with some lazy sack of shit pushing a broom down a curb for $50 an hour for a construction company, which i'll admit is a definate problem, but comparing the problem of people at the bottom who don't deserve alot of money making a decent wage with the problem of people in the top %6 of this country controlling %90 of this countrys wealth and record layoff numbers, economy is in the toilet, and why is all this? because the inept top %6 of the country that controlls all the wealth are too fucking stupid to even run their companys well, so they squash the lower classes to prop themselves up.
how many ceo's take a salary cut of say, 5 million dollars a year, leaving them at a mere 15-20 million a year in order to spare 500 jobs in a layoff? doesn't happen.
fuck that.
unionize now!
Slashdot Mirror
i guarentee you if you put on an mp3 and vinyl copy of the same tune from warp you will notice a big difference.
yes the tunes are usually from samplers and some digital virtual analog synths which are digits however a lot of it is also from actual analog synths that were never digits, and i know people like squarepusher (on his older machine at least) was using an analog board and an 8 track reel to reel tape machine to actually record the stuff, thus the nice analog warmth and fatness (which does not exist in purely digital form going straight to mp3 from a hard drive) is intakt.
mp3's are about as far from vinyl sound quality as you can possibly get. and i say this as the enthusiastic owner of a large vinyl collection and a 40 gig ipod. mp3's/aac's are great because of space and downloadability, that's it.
the corperate structure itself breeds mediocrity as was even aknowledged, NOT unions, corperations do not give a shit about you, the gap between rich and even middle class is at an all time high, people at the top don't know shit, we NEED unions to even begin to even it out a little bit. the only thing they understand is profit, if they are forced to lose profit because of how they treat their workers THEN they will change and only then. if it is on an individual basis everyone is replacable, they can divide and conquer, you don't like the job so they can your ass and hire someone who will put up with their bullshit. does this improve the situation? no, it just keeps the standard of living low for those in the low class and high for those in the high class. people do not acend in this business based on merit, anyone who works in one of these corperations can see that, they rise based on politics and who they know, and as was pointed out, seniority. unions get a bad rap because people associate them with some lazy sack of shit pushing a broom down a curb for $50 an hour for a construction company, which i'll admit is a definate problem, but comparing the problem of people at the bottom who don't deserve alot of money making a decent wage with the problem of people in the top %6 of this country controlling %90 of this countrys wealth and record layoff numbers, economy is in the toilet, and why is all this? because the inept top %6 of the country that controlls all the wealth are too fucking stupid to even run their companys well, so they squash the lower classes to prop themselves up. how many ceo's take a salary cut of say, 5 million dollars a year, leaving them at a mere 15-20 million a year in order to spare 500 jobs in a layoff? doesn't happen. fuck that. unionize now!