Mile Davis summed this concept up very neatly before digital music and
images even existed by saying (paraphrased), "It won't be a real jazz
album until they leave the mistakes in."
ScottGee1
On 3/3/06, AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
SNIP!
> This reminds me of the early '90s when I was in the midst of the
> digital audio revolution in the broadcast and recording
> industries. We were able to create DA and AD converters which
> were very clean and transparant. The editing and manipulation
> were equally clean and transparant. You know what happened?
> The sounds lost life. It wasn't until we added some grunge back
> into the sound profile that things started sounding better. We'd
> do this through multiple means, but until you did so, the sound
> was thin. The algorithms were altered to fatten the sound up
> and that pleased everybody but the garage-studio spec readers.
> It seemed that the wannabees were more interested in "ultra
> clean" than "what sounded right and sold".
>
> Sound familiar?
SNIP!
> AG
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