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gios78
I was once a recording artiste (not) selling upwards of 1000 copies each release , probably topped 5000 once . then in 2007 the labels decided digital was the way to go and they refused to release my last contrived work on vinyl .
i would say much of the problem is the several thousand underground labels that popped up in the last 7 or so years . they brought it back alive but they also only do small runs up to 300 . then the majors came back in and and most of the big pressing plants such as EMI had gone thanks to the majors abandoning vinyl . so they have to use smaller companies ....
i love vinyl 180gram, coloured , 7inch , 12 inch whatever it sounds great to me . the skills of the engineers has got better though the lathes are still the same , 24bit 96k optimum for cutting vinyl i believe you can't even buy a 24bit cd player , digital just sounds too harsh and some of the mastering is appallingly loud . just got 4 x 7" singles in the post this morning :)I forget exactly how many sound pressure it is but Vinyl cannot capture 24bits in reality.
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I was once a recording artiste (not) selling upwards of 1000 copies each release , probably topped 5000 once . then in 2007 the labels decided digital was the way to go and they refused to release my last contrived work on vinyl .
i would say much of the problem is the several thousand underground labels that popped up in the last 7 or so years . they brought it back alive but they also only do small runs up to 300 . then the majors came back in and and most of the big pressing plants such as EMI had gone thanks to the majors abandoning vinyl . so they have to use smaller companies ....
i love vinyl 180gram, coloured , 7inch , 12 inch whatever it sounds great to me . the skills of the engineers has got better though the lathes are still the same , 24bit 96k optimum for cutting vinyl i believe you can't even buy a 24bit cd player , digital just sounds too harsh and some of the mastering is appallingly loud . just got 4 x 7" singles in the post this morning :)