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I've always hated vinyl records, even when I was a kid, that is why I tried to make a tape recorder in the fourth grade, I didn't succeed obviously, but at least I tried! The ticks, and pops, plus surface noise, and the eccentricity of vinyl records drove me (when I had enough money), to purchase a used teak A1500U, reel-to-reel tape recorder, but I could easily still hear the difference between "source and tape", the dreaded tape hiss. In 1978 as an engineering consultant for the "Great American Sound Co., I traveled to Japan to visit GAS dealers and the Tokyo Electronics Show. In the Sony booth at that show, I saw for the first time, a model PCM-1, 12-bit digital processor playing music from the video track displaying thousands of black and white, undulating bits on the monitor, from the same SL-8200 Beta max VCR I had at home, I had to own one of these! In 1983 I attended an AES meeting featuring Marshall Buck who was presenting his new "coaxial two-way" loudspeaker he had designed for Cerwin-Vega! In his demonstration he was utilizing a "vocal-only" recording of a female singer that sounded fantastic with an incredible "dynamic range" and no background hiss. Immediately after Marshall's demonstration, I walked up and asked him what equipment was playing back his recording of this singer? He pointed to this diminutive silver box, and said I'm using a Sony PCM-F1, 16-bit Digital Audio Processor and a VCR. I said how much for the PCM-F1. He said $1,500.00, and I said sold! I built a portable recording rig that included the PCM-F1 and other custom-made equipment that I utilized for various musical performance recordings made on location and I won an Emmy for an outdoor performance of the opera Faust! I've been a digital advocate ever since, if you wish to learn more about my current endeavors, search CZcams with the following: "JBL SYNTHESIS CREATOR", and ALSO: "HOWTOHOMELIFE". If you have questions, feel-free to call me @ 818-314-7275 Pacific time. David Riddle

I actually never expect live events to Sound like the record (and j am very suprised when they do)... But i am so frustrated by having to guess what song is played at the Moment because everything is just basically white noise while the bass trying to CPR me... Now that you mention it i see some of the reasons that make it challenging to get live music Sound right, but still I wonder: can't you just turn the bass drum a little less loud so i can hear the damn guitar solo?

My favorite from SOPHIE🎉🎉

Why does everyone cut that part out it because a lot of people don’t know how they got there name and the funny part of it

very nicely analyzed. Modest. Like Bobby was. good job

Your channel so your call, but when you pause one of if not the best live performance on record in the middle of a run or line, I would so appreciate you backing up just a tad before resuming. Maybe just me but the way the pausing was done really ruined the whole thing for me sorry to say.

My younger brother is the redheaded guy in the beginning of the video, he owns the studio.

Can you react to mine? It’s called traumatized By YoungT7

Thanks for acknowledging this. It's an absolutely ridiculous and upsetting situation, and one of those sad, nonsensical, supposed "norms". It would make much more sense for appropriate sound levels to be used, than to have to wear ear plugs. None of the music events I went to before 2019 were too loud, in 2019 I went to one that was too loud and two that weren't, but the music events I went to in 2021 and 2023 were both too loud. Could it be the case that my perception of what's too loud has changed. or has the situation just been more of a thing recently?

With your self-gripped opinions...I'd have thought you knew the final note bobby sang.

Amen. Because it was (and can be) fun!

vinyl are overraterd

love these

I would go as far as saying it's a Poorman's Eventide. I bought mine for $149 15 years ago brand new, and my only criticism is I didn't buy 2. *It's also a bit extreme for some needs as well where you need a delay, a modulation or a reverb, but you don't need 20 parameters to adjust.* For this reason, I bought 2 Virtualizer Pros, and they have moderate parameter controls, and are ideal for using on a guitar amp's effects loop or when you don't want to spend an hour programming a reverb or modulation for some vocals or an acoustic guitar. I greatly see the Rev2496 as a piece of studio gear to put on your mixing board's loop, mastering through your board or pursuing a commercial quality recording. *With all that said, PC's and even Android tablets provide so much now that a $100 tablet can genuinely replace the powerhouse rack units still on the market today.* Even 20 years ago I talked to a lot of other musicians online that constantly used the phrase, "just mouse it", meaning add your effects with your DAW after the fact.

The idea is that the signal can be decoded using DSP and HRTF to earbuds. If that's the case you can make an equal argument you can do a pretty good simulation with some nice headphones. I would rather buy some nice headphones than add a silly load of speakers around my studio.

Absolutely NOT! Atmos is a dead parrot! Good riddance!

I fully agree with you. Feels more like a marketing campaign. I don’t see it taking over stereo anytime soon. This also bumps the cost up for consumers and engineers.

CONGRATULATIONS Marc, looking GREAT! 😀❤️❤️✊

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Nice

Yeaa bro! Looking nice

Looking good mate

Not a backing track but live orchestra back then Audience was quiet till the end. Live performance with live orchestra was the norm. Audiences were respectful up to time of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan Show when the audience went nuts screaming, ruining the TV performance, and visibly surprising Ed. (Quickly became the normal background for shows, which ended my own interest in such shows. FM started providing popular music in addition to classical ) Every network had a superb orchestra for their shows, likely more than one

The bass is not a Fender P, it's a Lakland 44-60 which is a higher end Fender Jazz copy. You can tell by their oval bridge and headstock. From the tone, you can tell that the bridge pickup is being somewhat favored.

Excellent video. Spot on. I get the tactile aspect of records but the muppets who funnel placebo through their ears....it's horse poo

no. its live.

One would think that you would know the music was performed live.

Terribly WRONG in your assessment, Bobby Hatfield was NEVER NERVOUS, this is a HEAVENLY PERFORMANCE WITH A SUPER INCREDIBLE GUY AND VOICE DRESSED PERFECTLY. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SONG EVER SUNG.

Stop it right in the middle of the best trill in the song.muppet

Vinyl is the future

One of Band Maid signature sounds IS a bas heavy mix.....Misa is so strong on bass that they really emphasize it all their mixes. The rhythm section is really the driving force in this band !!!!!!

In your own objective, dispassionate way you give this performance the highest praise. About that last note: you’re absolutely right: Bobby nails it but doesn’t hold it, he just lets his voice sound out with the orchestra supporting him. Just magic !

Im pretty confident when I say, there will never be a better performance than this

please analyse their official video too

Bobby suffered stage fright. He was 25, his first time live on one of most popular TV shows, he had a cold, his mom was sitting behind him, Good grief, it’s a wonder he could sing let alone make the best live record eVER! Bobby was close to perfect as an entertainer and person.

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do Sophie hard next

excellent review; I particularly like his ability not to be caught up in the emotional reaction and calmly analyse the content. bravo mate.

Unfortunetly i bought a Round base Stand, and 2 months the Round Base was all RUSTY. Really Iron rusty, to bad.

WOW. people in the UK pronounce the word Renaissance so much differently than we say the word in the USA.. I thought you mentally challenged at first listen, then I looked up it's actually just a cultural difference between the US and UK.

From every performance I've seen, it feels like they lower the guitars and raise the other instruments a bit. All of them usually get a little solo each in at least half of the songs on each album as well.

You had them extremely quiet like you have the slider at about 40%. If you listen to them at full volume, you hear each and every instrument like no other band aside from maybe Polyphia.

It's not showing off vocal gymnastics, it's the way the music was written, it's an unchained melody, hence the name! No one can do it like this

He had a cold at night and his mother was in the audience first time she heard him sing live

No backing track.

This is by far the best reaction video I've ever seen. Very insightful, balanced and honest.

Perfection

As a person that collects vinyl, and CDs and collecting music in other nefarious ways... I have no illusions about the quality of the two, in fact. Unless you are a DJ mixing a hardcore record, you'll never really notice the difference. And yes everything you have said is true and I have heard this argument since CDs came out and only the blind rabid fanboy could possibly and idiotically claim vinyl is better sound quality... I mean it is obvious, grooves cut into an object by a needle or a laser scanning millions of bits of data on a 5" circle. That can hold as MP3s a few hundred songs or in a higher format the album in near perfect replication of the band performing the music and the engineer boosting the quality of the recording eq using computers.... And yes, PVC is toxic, but so are cigarettes and drugs and alcohol.... 😅

You don't know what you are talking about !!

CD's forever!