{"id":7656,"date":"2012-06-27T22:13:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T02:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=7656"},"modified":"2012-06-29T10:14:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T14:14:38","slug":"go-scratch-a-rock-on-some-congealed-oil-and-tell-me-what-it-sounds-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/go-scratch-a-rock-on-some-congealed-oil-and-tell-me-what-it-sounds-like\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Go scratch a rock on some congealed oil and tell me what it sounds like\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m either getting old or conventional, ‘cos I bought something I said I would never have enough time or space for: a turntable. I won’t forsake my beloved MP3s, but there are somethings you just can’t get electronically. One of them being the 1981 Stampfel & Weber album “Going Nowhere Fast”, which I snagged from Etsy from a west coast seller.<\/p>\n

I bought an elderly Technics from Ring Audio<\/a>, and set it up with a USB phono preamp from Phonopreamps.com<\/a>. It sounds good, I guess. It certainly sounds different from MP3s, but better<\/em> …? Dunno. My two cynical theories<\/del> hypotheses of vinyl snobbery are:<\/p>\n

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  1. The more you have invested in your system, the more confirmation bias tells you it sounds better.<\/li>\n
  2. Vinyl is the record industry’s last-gasp attempt attempt at relevancy, because you can’t home-cut your own discs. As there’s always analogue loss in ripping from vinyl, it’s self-policed rights management by the sound quality snobs. Imagine that: DRM conditioned into the listeners themselves!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I have not got a lot of records:<\/p>\n

    Albums<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Going Nowhere Fast \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Stampfel & Weber<\/li>\n
    2. The Holy Modal Rounders<\/li>\n
    3. The Holy Modal Rounders 2 (are you sensing a pattern here?)<\/li>\n
    4. Acedia \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Black Walls<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Single-ish Things<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. The Television Tells Us \/ Freeing Song by Reindeer \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Music Tapes (Julian sent me this in 1998, and I think this is the first time I’ve played it. For a few days, it was the only record I had, and it was merciful that Catherine<\/a> was away, as she only has a normal human tolerance for this sort of thing<\/em>)<\/li>\n
      2. Ghetto Kitty Island Split 7″ – featuring Chicken on a Raft, Of Montreal, Bart Davenport and The Minders.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Speaking of which, I understand that the latter EP is not exactly widely known, is totes OOP, and completists might dig Of Montreal<\/a>‘s \u00e2\u20ac\u009dEpistle to a Pathological Creep<\/em> (demo)\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, so here it is ripped for your listening pleasure:<\/p>\n

        \"Ghetto<\/a>I recorded it with arecord, and edited it with Audacity.\u00c2\u00a0 The arecord command line (more for my reference than your interest) was:<\/p>\n

        arecord -D 'hw:CARD=CODEC,DEV=0' -V stereo -c 2 -f dat -d 900 ghettokittyisland.wav<\/pre>\n
        which records 900 seconds of audio at DAT quality to the file ghettokittyisland.wav, while showing a simple text meter on the screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
        I’m either getting old or conventional, ‘cos I bought something I said I would never have enough time or space for: a turntable. I won’t forsake my beloved MP3s, but there are somethings you just can’t get electronically. One of them being the 1981 Stampfel & Weber album “Going Nowhere Fast”, which I snagged from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[2525,2523,45,132,2524,496,2522],"class_list":["post-7656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audblog","tag-bart_davenport","tag-chicken_on_a_raft","tag-mp3","tag-of-montreal","tag-the_minders","tag-turntable","tag-vinyl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1Zu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7656"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7666,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656\/revisions\/7666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}