This shows not only the record labels, but the artists the viability of the market itself. What this can potentially lead to is established artists leaving their contracts behind and solely distributing their music via online recouping 100% of the profit apart from the "music store's" cut.
Most successful artists are producing their own stuff and have to pay the label for distribution and promotion. If they simply hire a promotions guy they have cut the costs and still make tons more money than with the label.
The labels still have their place with up andd coming artists and all the unknowns, unless you have such strong underground roots like Ani DiFranco.
Well next time you show up for work, expect to get paid $0.10-.25 for a weeks worth of work. I know the artists don't get that much from each download, some more than others, but at least it something.
No, but if the info is desired you still have to register or whatever. I'm not saying that all websites are malicious, but this definitely has the potential for malicious uses and that's what we need protection from. Demographics are one thing, but how thye're compiled, who has access to them and for what purposes they're used for are the big questions. With the advent of the PATRIOT Act (Putting Americans Through Ridiculously Inhumane Oppressive Torture) we as a people need to be more secure in whom we trust.
I typically hate being FORCED to register to use a web site. Furthermore I hate being tracked as I use the site. This idea is just short of installing an always on GPS in my car, oh wait isn't that called OnStar? Furthmore, I think this type OnlineID is intrusive and totalitarian. Beware!
I'm not advocating Cable UP for everyday pro use; however, this is satisfactory for home hobbiests. I wouldn't advocate buying the rediculously priced stuff that runs $20+/ft.
Where do you think Svetlana tubes are made? St. Petersburg! (Russia not Florida) JJ's are Czech made (technically the Slovak Republic, but all part of old Czechoslovakia)
While yes it is best to find USA made old tubes, those are either too hard to find or way too expensive.
Strings can actually make a difference. New strings, especially on an acoustic guitar, tend to be brighter and "punchier", whereas ones that have been exposed to air and mounds of sweat (ever seen Angus live?), have a chance to oxidize creating a 'mellowing' of the strings and therefore don't cut as much.
BTW Neil Young needs effects to sound better than w/o, perhaps to drown out the incessant one note solos that he's famous for.
Developing a "tone" is so crucial for a guitar player and probably the hardest thing to do. Distinctiveness of sound, even though chords and notes may be similar, is so important. You can tell David Gilmour from a mile away clean or distorted, same for Eddie Van Halen. All premiere guitar guys have that distinctive tone that belongs to only them, this is only achieved like you said by experimenting.
I hate to burst the bubble, but 90% of the cable out there is oxygen free. The only difference comes when you're referring to guage and frequency response. Yes a thicker cable will help with bass reproduction and gold contacts will prevent corrosion, but how many of us have had problems with corrosion and our audio cables? I don't know about ya'll, but I don't have my stuff outside near the ocean 24/7.
As far as recording goes the better the sound in used to record the better the recording. Guitar amps tend to sound better than SS. And despite your claim that people can't tell the difference, if they say this concerning these two points, they're just not "listening." However, non critical recording, it doesn't matter.
Tubes aren't as fragile as you might think. All guitar amps and mic pre's with tubes all come with them preinstalled. Rarely will one come from the factory broken, in fact I've never seen that. And these are many times shipped via UPS etc. and we know that packages can be treated roughly.
As far as the "vinyl" crowd is concerned, these guys (and girls) are certifiably insane. Spending the thousands of dollars on home stereo equipment, particularly the $40K speakers and the $20K tube amps, is absloutely overkill. There's a common rule in the audio industry that the sound you hear coming out of the speaker is only as good as what it was recorded on. All these people that tell you that you need this and that are typically telling you to use equipment that specs out far superior to the equipment that was used during recording. LIke all this high end 24-bit/96kHz capable equipment won't help your recordings from 2000 and before, because the standards of digital recording were 16-bit/44.1 or 48kHz. Get something decent and stop sweating what the needle heads say.
I'm going to tell you there isn't a guitar player worth his salt that wouldn't choose a Soldano or a Marshall JCM-800 over a solid state Crate etc. There's a definite "tone" difference that is conveyed between tube and ss. There is a definite "air" that is perceived even though the harmonics generated by a good tube architecture, even though it's completely inaudible to the human ear. Tube distortion is so much warmer and more pleasant to hear than solid state.
Not all tubes are the same. There a in fact only a few tube factories in the whole world and tubes made at certain factories are better than others. It makes a huge difference to the listener. BTW Russian tubes tend to be the best followed by Czech.
By the way you're discussing amps I assume you're referring to reference amps, because there aren't too many guitar amps that 250 watts! As far as reference amps go, there's really no reason to get the $10,000 Manley tube amp.
I'm not going to say that solid state is always inferior to tube, because that's totally untrue. Case in point is the Focusrite Red Range series of microphone pre-amps which have Class A handwired ISA transformers which I believe outperform any tube pre out there. Just the opposite would be a Tube MP from ART is inferior to any of the low end DBX pre's.
As far as clipping an amp, nothing could be more detrimental to your speakers than that. Always get more power than your speakers are rated for. You'll get an overall cleaner sound and won't overdrive your speakers as bad.
It would be horrendous for business. Imagine that you couldn't access UPS's website because you don't use IE7. What's your alternative? Go with FedEx! UPS will find themselves losing a tremdous amount of business and will cease to code their pages for IE only. Look on the bright side!
It also does audio better and video. Granted these are specialized markets, but they're something we all interact with on a daily basis. BTW there are 12,000 titles for OSX. I know that pales in comparison to the Window$ world, but how many of the apps for XP are of real quality? I know guys that have stopped buying games on the PC because they tire of them too quickly for the $60 they shell out for them. I'll stick to a console for games.
I'm not sure how they obtain their numbers. If they're going by total number of computers sold over the past 20 years then yes possibly. Apple has consistently been among the top sellers of units over the years. How many Macs are in use vs. PC's? I haven't bought a new Mac in a few years, but I am using three every day. I know that's not typical, but they should take into consideration these types of things when they're bagging on Apple.
Where is your "education" coming from? How many of the 'all-in-on' Mac users that you know have had their monitor crap out? How many of the original Macs are still working? I have an original iMac still going strong. And I'm using an expensive (relatively) CRT monitor from 10 years ago and that's still working very well.
For those that need the flexibility of choosing your own monitor size, yes a headless Mac would be fine, but for people like my mom and grandparents the 'all-in-one' solution with as little to mess around with is the best solution.
how much more modular does a mac need to be? I haven't found it too difficult to upgrade any of my Macs, with the exception of my original iMac. There wasn't a problem finding upgrades for it, it's just that you have to take the whole damn thing apart!
...that in their super critical statistical analysis that he never actually gave a number of OS X incidents, just some vague percentages? No real specifics at all. I mean sure if OS X had 10 security holes and 6 were critical that you be 60%, whereas if XP had 100 holes with only 37 of those as critical it'd only be 37%. By that logic XP would be rock solid secure! This just seems like Apple bashing, and had they mentioned what percentage of the OS X holes were in common open source programs that may have been across the board amongst Linux/Unix systems? At least I can gather that if there's a hole in Windows that M$ is to blame for the bad code, not a class project from MIT!
Having never been to a Cyber Cafe, let me ask... this is a place where they provide the computer AND net connection, right? We're not talking about a coffee shop with wireless access? Forgive my ignorance, but I stay in to surf or hit the beach!
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Most successful artists are producing their own stuff and have to pay the label for distribution and promotion. If they simply hire a promotions guy they have cut the costs and still make tons more money than with the label.
The labels still have their place with up andd coming artists and all the unknowns, unless you have such strong underground roots like Ani DiFranco.
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While yes it is best to find USA made old tubes, those are either too hard to find or way too expensive.
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BTW Neil Young needs effects to sound better than w/o, perhaps to drown out the incessant one note solos that he's famous for.
Developing a "tone" is so crucial for a guitar player and probably the hardest thing to do. Distinctiveness of sound, even though chords and notes may be similar, is so important. You can tell David Gilmour from a mile away clean or distorted, same for Eddie Van Halen. All premiere guitar guys have that distinctive tone that belongs to only them, this is only achieved like you said by experimenting.
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Tubes aren't as fragile as you might think. All guitar amps and mic pre's with tubes all come with them preinstalled. Rarely will one come from the factory broken, in fact I've never seen that. And these are many times shipped via UPS etc. and we know that packages can be treated roughly.
As far as the "vinyl" crowd is concerned, these guys (and girls) are certifiably insane. Spending the thousands of dollars on home stereo equipment, particularly the $40K speakers and the $20K tube amps, is absloutely overkill. There's a common rule in the audio industry that the sound you hear coming out of the speaker is only as good as what it was recorded on. All these people that tell you that you need this and that are typically telling you to use equipment that specs out far superior to the equipment that was used during recording. LIke all this high end 24-bit/96kHz capable equipment won't help your recordings from 2000 and before, because the standards of digital recording were 16-bit/44.1 or 48kHz. Get something decent and stop sweating what the needle heads say.
Like I said, it all depends on application...
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Not all tubes are the same. There a in fact only a few tube factories in the whole world and tubes made at certain factories are better than others. It makes a huge difference to the listener. BTW Russian tubes tend to be the best followed by Czech.
By the way you're discussing amps I assume you're referring to reference amps, because there aren't too many guitar amps that 250 watts! As far as reference amps go, there's really no reason to get the $10,000 Manley tube amp.
I'm not going to say that solid state is always inferior to tube, because that's totally untrue. Case in point is the Focusrite Red Range series of microphone pre-amps which have Class A handwired ISA transformers which I believe outperform any tube pre out there. Just the opposite would be a Tube MP from ART is inferior to any of the low end DBX pre's.
As far as clipping an amp, nothing could be more detrimental to your speakers than that. Always get more power than your speakers are rated for. You'll get an overall cleaner sound and won't overdrive your speakers as bad.
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For those that need the flexibility of choosing your own monitor size, yes a headless Mac would be fine, but for people like my mom and grandparents the 'all-in-one' solution with as little to mess around with is the best solution.
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