Recent content by yousef_mcr

I find this quite bizarre... this recording has a number of issues that are not present on the Manc recording - the automatic gain has obviously been left on so you get that annoying 'pumping' effect with virtually every bass drum hit and the taper was obviously moving about quite a lot as the...

Without wanting to sound arrogant, have you heard the Manchester recording?

I think Rimbaud makes a good point... [Er, well he did - most of his post seems to have disappeared now...] And I must say that some of his internal mic recordings sound very good indeed - particularly the Magazine one on Dimeadozen - better than I would have thought was possible with...

:) I'd say the best value for money budget set-up you can get would be a set of Church or Sound Professionals cardioid microphones ($120+) plus a power supply (from $30) and a recorder such as an Edirol R-09HR ($282 on Amazon.com). Don't forget media for the recorder too... Upgrades for...

Ta for the kind words, Tilly Flood. I know it's pissing in the wind for the most part, but if helps just one person understand the need to protect digital recordings, then a tiny bit of good has been done :)

But this isn't always going to be the case: torrents become seederless after a few weeks, maybe months if you're lucky. Rapidshare etc accounts expire or are deleted, websites disappear or even lose their archives. The best chance of preserving things in their best possible quality is to...

Files get corrupted, hard drives fail. Spreading the original files far and wide is a way of hoping to preserve them. Posting MP3s of the same files is a sure fire way of subverting this. No-one is trying to prevent anyone hearing the recording - the request was that the files not be...

Hmm... The arguments over FLAC are not about snobbery, it's about preserving the quality of the music over time - once a recording has been encoded to MP3 for distribution, you are virtually guaranteeing multiple generations of undocumented MP3>audio>cd>MP3>MP3 etc conversions - each one of...