Many years ago, I wrote a nasty missive about Billy Joel on the previous EA Board that was very satisfying. I have limited writing gifts, so it was not exactly poetry. But it was mean-spirited and original enough that I would occasionally remember it and grin/chuckle. I'd really nailed just exactly ...

Hi EA Forum friends. I've moved into firm lurker status here (unless people are bringing up Rick Rubin's views on analog recording). (Why do I care about this?) (I can't say.) The Austerity Program is putting out a record today that's available in a bunch of different places. As always, there's a lo...

Text is digital; you can reproduce it as much as you like. As I mentioned, The Iliad, The Republic and Euclid's Elements have stuck around to this day. Nice. Text on a computer is digital. Text in a book is analog. Digital does not mean reproduce-ability; I have two 1/4" machines and can make ...

Having a single physical copy of a thing is having nothing for the purposes of archive. There is nothing "archival" about analog tape unless you have multiple copies of it. 1 is none, 2 is one. In digital land 1 is 1,000,000,000... if you want it to be and with very little effort/comparat...

I can't follow the argument that I had a smart professor in university who pointed out that if you want to compare two things you can't in good faith compare the worst possible version of one thing to the best possible version of another. is then followed with two massive, catastrophic and extraordi...

Conversely, I was at someone's house a while ago who was telling me about having to re-record the bass on some kind of anniversary reissue of some record because no one could find the slave real with the bass track on it. Warehouses burn down. Sometimes a memo goes out from the studio to bin the ex...

Digital recording has tended towards better permanence since the OG forum discussion on Radar 24. But I am still with FM Steve regarding the real-world application of the permanence of analog media over digital. There is a distinction here between putting together demos in GarageBand or Reaper, or m...

Print-through is a solvable issue, and I'm sure Neil and Rick have enough money to hire an engineer to make sure it's not happening. Neil going on about the "dark space" stuff and how the sound has gone through some magical transformation while Rick Rubin stares at his bare feet ... it's a...

This is just nonsense.

We are all fortunate to have been alive and paying attention during Albini's 61 years. An immense force for good.

Salut Steve Albini. You are one of the realest motherfuckers I have ever known of.

= Justin