From the January 6 Hearings C/NC thread , discussing Alex Jones' texts as evidence for the J6 committee:

rsmurphy wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:57 pm [...] I'd hazard a guess that there are texts from all them insurrectionist hoes: Stone, Gaetz, Green, maybe even Trump? Hope springs eternal and all that.

The phrase "all them insurrectionist hoes," describing the likes of Roger Stone, Matt Gaetz, et al, caused me to screech and cackle with amusement.

MoFi Records claimed its expensive reissues were purely analog productions. It had been deceiving its customer base for years.

LOL. If you handed over 60 bucks for the MoFi Beck - Sea Change, I can't sympathize with how "betrayed" you feel.

chexmixbreath wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 3:22 pm MoFi Records claimed its expensive reissues were purely analog productions. It had been deceiving its customer base for years.

LOL. If you handed over 60 bucks for the MoFi Beck - Sea Change, I can't sympathize with how "betrayed" you feel.

I have a few MoFi pressings - one of them is from their "One-Step" series. They all sound great to me, and while it sucks that they didn't previously disclose a digital step in their process, it probably won't (completely) deter me from buying another one of their products... well, maybe not another one of their $125 "One-Step" pressings.

chexmixbreath wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 3:22 pm MoFi Records claimed its expensive reissues were purely analog productions. It had been deceiving its customer base for years.

LOL. If you handed over 60 bucks for the MoFi Beck - Sea Change, I can't sympathize with how "betrayed" you feel.

The article seemed to also gloss over how the delay line for cutting pitch on the lathe is handled. I'm not aware of too many places using an analog delay line for pitch. It seems most cutting lathes are set up to use digital delay and have been for many years. DSD is pretty impressive, quality wise. Not sure about the 48k/16-20 bit PCM delays typically used for the delay line though....

Can anyone comment on this? Are mastering studios using 96/192k at 24 bit for their lathe delay lines now-a-days?

Personally, I'm willing to risk digital artifacts for the additional +3dB you get by not running through an extra analog read/write generation. Perhaps I value dynamic range and S/N more than the typical pop record consumer though.

Geiginni wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 3:55 pm Can anyone comment on this? Are mastering studios using 96/192k at 24 bit for their lathe delay lines now-a-days?

When I've sat in mastering sessions at Chicago Mastering Service I'm 99% sure the stereo file was duplicated and time shifted, and am pretty sure those were both used to feed the lathe. (which was done later, not while I was there)

I understand they are capable of doing an analog cut by request, you just lose some flexibility as it's all done on the fly.

H/T FM Placeholder

hahahaha....I literally choked on air at the little guitar riff at 21 seconds, but the entire video is shitty gold

I don't know which is funnier/worse, but this one gives me a headache.



Not that the following has anything to do with the above atrocities, but today I found out that Chris Holmes is a massive racist. Blamed "black culture" on his downfall and then went on to drop several n-bombs in an interview. And all this time I thought Blackie was the problematic one.

Still dig the debut from W.A.S.P. It smokes.

I listened to Bono's Desert Island Discs on my way home from work today. When asked about one of the more controversial issues about U2 - that they had transferred their corporate operations overseas in order to avoid paying Irish taxes - he stopped just short of stating outright that anyone who had an issue with that was ignorant and not worth the courtesy of a response. Then he played a song from his son's band.

rsmurphy wrote: Mon Aug 22, 2022 8:31 pm And all this time I thought Blackie was the problematic one.

, Holmes continued.