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you know, you can unleash the pro features in logic by simply checking a box in the preferences, right? and also logic has one huge advantage over any other DAW and that is the stock plugins. there is a ton of them and they all are insanely good. you basically don't have to buy any third party plugin to get going (apart from the amp sims as they are the worst shit ever. I have no idea how they included this garbage into an otherwise almost perfect software).

Any opinions on the Drop + Grell OAE1? From what I have heard, the idea behind the making of these cans were to indeed be as close to hearing speakers as possible.

Good video thanks 🙏 question regards phono pre amps and DJ mixers - is the EQ curve applied in DJ mixers and if not how do you put the curve right for listening back to the vinyl please ? Thanks

cassette sounds much warmer than vinyl. vinyl is clean sound, not warm.

You have good vinyl and bad vinyl . You have good cd's and bad ones . And you have very good hi-fi or not so good or bad setups . I have recent hi-end gear in the house , and still I'm listening the whole day to a vintage 1978 Marantz reciever ! Why ? Because I can listen to it the whole day through without having listening fatigue. If I listen to vinyl I have the same feelin' , it does not hurt my ears . And the same can be said when I listen to my reel-to-reel which in fact sounds even better than my vinyl. If I want details , resolution , perfection , yes , I can listen to my electrostats and hybrid amp and hybrid sacd player and get that satisfaction. In short : it does not matter what is better , what matters is what kind of sound you like .

Thanks! 20 years ago, when I did local TV audio, I wanted to do a test between productions. So I recorded on our DAT machine empty studio room-tone from a hardwire lav mic. I then zeroed out the eq on the DAT playback, leveled the outputs, then A/B'd the playback DAT with the live room tone mic. At any monitor volume level, I could not hear a difference between the DAT machine vs the live mic. Even metal Dolby C cssette tape added a bit of hiss on the same test. But with the DAT, the room tone/hiss was the same. My one 'transparency' test with digital, and digital came out on top. ... Now, that said, I do enjoy my vinyl, but it's similar to old VHS or film. I know what i'm getting, and I like it for it's 'flavors' (flaws).

He didn't mention the proximity effect. And I've tested my recording technique extensively, and I can hear my pop filter (less high end). There is more too - if the mic is up and pointing down you pick up more of your chest resonance. You can also avoid proximity effect with an omni microphone. Only cardioid microphone has proximity. Finally, microphones differ in the frequency response by angle. It drives me nuts because when I do a re-take, the sound never matches. (No, it's not my voice changing, this is within 5 minutes of the first recording). Last, for those using closets, you need some space around your mic. The room can have resonances and small changes in position can change the sound.

I disagree with this. It's completely missing the point. If you mix 16 tracks, where each is fairly loud, it requires 20 bits to retain the full quality. At this point, it could be rendered to 16 bit with dither with no problem, but if you applied some effect like compression, there could be an audible difference, because with compression you are making those lower 4 (of 20) bits loud enough to be in the normal 16 bit range. Another example: your "tanh" distortion plugin couldn't be undone without lots of precision. This is mathematically provable. In summary, keep 32 bit float when applying mixing or plugins. The final out is fine in 16 bit, but if you ever do a re-master you will lose quality.

You telling the meaning and ethmology of the word "analog" instantly blew my mind and completely changed my way of thinking about this Great video, btw!!! Edit: Actually, when I first saw about how tape recording works, the way the polarity reverses on magnetic tape sounded suspiciously like an old school form of digital sampling, after seeing this video my penny dropped, and I think my thoughts were right, thank you a lot!!!

So my albums from the 60s and 70s are digital?

I would be very interested in your opinions on modeling mic systems such as UA Sphere and Antelope. Too good to be true? I've never tried them myself.

Recording on magnetic tape, mixing on an analog mixer with analog effects, mastering analog onto a magnetic tape and then pressing vinyl has a unique sound.

Found a pair 660s and 660s2 and played with and worked on them, the 660S2 is the better of the 2. Even so, I returned it and kept the older 660s. Now with a sonarworks correction only in the lows I feel I have an amazing headphone.

meanwhile 64 bit audio is killed analog anyway. rip.

got some nice ones for 27 dollars

I got so sick of wondering if my speakers were lying to me as I always have to mix in an untreated flat that I decided to bypass the issue entirely and bought a pair of LCD-Xes. Which, idk, may not be 100% ideal for mixing on, but they seem to do the job for me.

AP Mastering Your crock Full of Modernistic B.S.

Your whole proxy is perverse, talking down "Audiofiles." I guess you mean Neil Young and Steve Lukather. Some influencer clowns do the same thing talking down vintage instruments. It is so cheap and stale to pick a totem and start chiseling at it. Enjoy your UA-cam pennies. I'm out.

i have a shitty room and got some shitty speakers. sounds pretty good so far

Ohh boy I am going to go ahead and tell you. It is not about good or bad or who is better or best. They're different mediums like with painting, oil, acrylic and water color. They're different mediums, Jack. And why are you using these crap records for your influencer nonsense? Go buy a copy of Aja or Autobahn.

You do not know much about audio, do you? You're making a lot of big declarations about things that you do not hear. Funny how that works. This joker doesn't even know how transports and drive system affect playback of records. I've known a couple of serious studio and music enthusiasts who can not mix their way out of a paper bag. Talking down vinyl is so 2000's.

now i have ableton, and i would slap an ozone 11, do the AI mastering, tweak it a bit and call it a day, i stopped doing mastering in ableton, i just mix it and then i put it in emastered which i quite like (its far better then most online mastering platforms in my opinion). i am not a mastering engineer so for a fast mix its fine, cant do it better myself anyway.

I have the older audio technica ath-m50 and HD 650 I mix mostly with the ath m50 better top and bottom while the HD 650 has better mid and stereo balance. I know how music should sound in audio technica ath-m50 and the most important thing is not which headphones you have, but that you know them.

Lighter is Better(cone weight), higher Amps is Better (cleaner reproduction), ridged Materials are Better (Focal), cabinet density and weight are better (Barefoot), Mid Range dome is Better (ATC & PMC). Etc. get the Best You can Afford.

The DAW you use doesn't matter and anyone that says it does is deluding themselves. Your music is good if your music is good. Use whatever DAW you want and invest in studio monitors.

Great interview. Thank you both.

How you didn't mention Mixcraft

I enjoy your videos. Yes, vinyl doesn't have a sound but ONLY if you have a GOOD turntable system. Most people don't. So to them the added rumble (cutting lathe + turntable + room rumble the cartridge hears better than we do and then amplifies it) gives the sound a fullness and warmth they dig. Also, like everything in audio, many preferences attributed to the sound are actually due to expectation bias.

It's why I only reference on headphones. They aren't natural either

🇬🇧 👍🏽 January 2025 Forget only end-game gear - this is required end-game knowledge.

lol one thing I do agree with you on is buying these expensive speakers is a waste of money for mixing ,I've got both a 5inch krk rocket5's and 8inch Yamahas hs8's and I get better mixes withe the smaller cone,the Yamahas are lying to me most of the time because they hype the mix with too much low frequency information , now when I mix on a smaller cone I get the ns10 effect which as you know the ns10 is cutting out a lot of the lower bass frequencies thereby making you focus on the mids to get a good mix. in my experience smaller and dull cones are your best friend for mixing, less is more because there is no hype with smaller limited speakers, I mean its the magic behind the ns10's and auratones, they've got less not more.also room treatment is important to hear your mix better for sure.

Hey man, you truly are the "Pro-Audio-Truthteller/Whistle-Blower/De-Bunker" on UA-cam. Amazing.....!!!!!!!!! Despite the very technical and In-Depth approach, you still manage to keep your audience alert and interested, whilst imparting a terrific amount of knowledge. Please tell me, that you make a shit load of money as an engineer, because .... if you don´t, who can......?, and why even bother? Thank you.........

I havent payed for music streaming in years, I like to buy music from my favorite artists. You could pay for Spotify for 10 years and at the end of it have nothing, or buy the music and have something, which can be shared and passed down.

I recently got into collecting my favorite albums on vinyl and its really nice turning off the phone and interacting with my music, also the album art is just great to look at in person!

It sounds the same, well … it doesn’t. Playing back vinyl, regardless of manufacturing policies, lends a hand of grace to the listener. Micing up the vinyl sound is easily done, hence, comparing that recording to the vinyl master is also easily done, even scientifically. There you will see alterations and audibly hear a difference. AAA, AAD, ADD, DDD doesn’t really matter anymore. The effect of the vinyl playback does. The tangible media is super cool yes. But claiming that this is the only reason for a vinyl, is simply not true!

I'm thrilled to have you explain what you know here and your previous video. As an audiophile, I've never been able to fully adopt vinyl records because of all the things you've stated.. and I've found digital is generally better. But, I still enjoy vinyl for what it does, and all the extra variables I can tweak. It's fun but can be expensive. Once people spend a lot of money, I could see how it becomes a belief thing. However, I only see it as a novelty and sort of a different side hobby within listening to music. I don't enjoy surface noise. I do like the remastered 90's music, though. Undoing the loudness war issues is great. If it's on vinyl that's cool if it's on digital that's cool too! On some level I think people like pain. They like the pain of having all these little things to adjust and deal with and pay for with a vinyl rig. They like accepting the surface noise.. they like paying $30 for something they could stream for next to nothing. I do it, so I can have the physical element of the hobby. It's kind of fun to set up a cartridge, there's a craft to it. Some people also like the ritual. To each their own!

I’ve collected vinyl my entire life mostly out of necessity because so much of it was the only way to get my hands on remixes and b-sides. I’m talking all the way back since 1985 while still in the 5th grade... All this time, I’ve absolutely hated records and the fragility of them, the anxiety of tuning all the components of my system b4 recording them. Just hated it to this very day. Back then I DJ’d with cassettes then jumped to minidisc and finally MP3’s (later wavs).

Very well documented as the saying goes ( the quality of music begins from it’s source). I was a DJ for more than twenty years, I owned five of those Technics SL 1200 Mark l l , one pair of the SL 1800 Mark l l which was introduced before the 1200’s .

I've been really confused between many of the high-end monitoring speaker models that brands like Focal and Adam Audio produce, and I've been worrying about how much acoustic treatment will cost me. But now, after thinking about it and doing a lot of research, it seems much more affordable and makes more sense to grab the NS-10s and put them in my non-treated room, leaving the low-end and the shimmery top-end to professional-grade mixing headphones. Please give me your insights on this, I would really use your help!

I like vinyl because it's mine. no subscriptions, format changes or anything else: bc you put it on and *listen to it*, according to how the artist thought of it and in the order in which the tracks were thought of. After 23 minutes you have to move, stand up! it's over, turn it sideways (unless you like hearing the needle go _chee tikK bop_ endlessly 😂)

and PS You gave cakewalk a D rating because it's for Windows only When Logic is for Mac only, be consistent with your criteria

why is your ranking the pinnacle, there are 8 billion other opinions, and I agree with DR Rinse.

Too many variables in how vinyl sounds. Music gets forgotten while worrying about those variables.

Interesting video :) I think there's something to be said about quality control on modern records. Sometimes you get lucky, and sometimes you buy a new, unsealed record released this year which is more scuffed and scratchy sounding than the 60 year old first edition you've got framed on your wall. Honestly, some newly produced records sound TERRIBLE compared to their original releases, nothing to do with the mastering. I've got a feeling that, since vinyl died down as a medium in the 00s, a lot of companies today don't have the good lathes they used to.

Exactly they never set foot in a studio! And good points, vinyl is digital 😅

It is not important how great your DAW is, what's best is that you create you mixed you mastered you deliver and then get paid for it....be good in what DAW you have. That is what i learned using NUENDO & CUBASE.