Sorry folks, this is just a drill. Testing one of those little usb turntables to see what it sounds like compared to my set-up & I was compelled by dark forces from deep within to lay some Spinach upon you...
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What did I think? Skinny & tinny is what I think. My old Geminis ain't the greatest lumps of forged ABS but the centuries old Ortofon cartridges that Noah gave me sound much better than the usb spike - definition, more volume, more bass, less treble. Another observation from this lil' experiment is just how much compression is slammed onto the audio. I stamp all over the vinyl wave by converting it to mp3, then Mixcloud sits its fat ass down on it, squeezing it up on the site so by the time it reaches us it's flatter than a pancake. There is at least a 25% drop in audio quality from my Spinach file to the final upload above. I deliberately sorted out Spinach for this 'cos it's honest & from a time when recording techniques were rudimentary. So there is nothing there to con the ear - no BBE, Dolby, digital re-mastering or any other ear candy, just the music & the engineer's use of basic EQ, miking & stereo field. Try it for yourselves. I don't use CDs so I would be very interested in a comparison between a recorded CD waveform & the final Mixcloud upload & how much quality if any, is lost in the process.
So yeah, if you can throw down some light on this issue, please do. Maybe it's just a lost (or squashed) in digital translation thing like the difference between jpeg & tiff files in photography. Maybe I'm disadvantaged from the outset by using vinyl & Audition &/or recording direct to sound card. What do you use/do? If you can be bothered, vent your spleen here & tell me & the 200 or so souls who check in here every so often. Mixcloud really needs a forum so we can all rap to each other about this sort of stuff...