My evenings have been taken up with proposal-writing for the last week or so. I've not really been reading. But I have picked at this on bus journeys and in small nibbles here and there. Extraordinarily strange, moreso even than The Palm-Wine Drinkard, maybe.
The mastering plugins will have settings for vinyl, but if there's side-chaining earlier in the mix, it will still sound flatter. And side-chained compression is pretty much a compositional choice, the removal of which changes the whole vibe of the piece.
Yes! And this working better on music with less expensive production is the key to why independent music can sometimes survive the transition to vinyl more successfully.
When records were mono, the needle only had to track one waveform, up and down. With stereo records, it's more of a side-to-side thing, which is why lateral space, rather than depth of vinyl becomes the main issue.
individual tracks maximised, then the overall mix maximised. This means that there's no practical way to master it for vinyl when the music is mastered primarily to come out of a phone speaker. It's always going to sound flat compared to older music. 3/3
in the CD era, i.e. the difference between loudest and quietest was reduced. Where music is primarily mastered for streaming, this is further exaggerated, as it used to be on local radio adverts that would be compressed as anything to cut through. It's now a bit more sophisticated than that, with 2/
It's also to do with how the music is mastered. To fit the grooves on a record, the root mean squared value of the volume is used to guide how loud it will be pressed. The move to digital meant that the volume depended on the maximum volume. This meant that music tended to be more compressed 1/
Finished this one. Alternately mossy and vertiginous.
I am currently reading it, and can confirm.
Mary Butts? Growing up on the other side of the country, in Suffolk, it was common for people to use 'shew' as the past tense of 'show'.
Finished reading this bitter, uproarious satire.
Read another Selvon, Lonely Londoners sequel. Seems cruder, but there are layers to it.
Borges' modesty and conservatism are occasionally tiresome, but they prevent him from falling into the trap of theorist-practitioner overreach. Strangely approaches, from quite a different angle, a point comparable to mid-Barthes in these lectures from '67/'68.
An odd extrapolation of an account by Charles Baudelaire of a dream into a 'life and works' exploration. Thankfully not psychoanalytical.
Felt good, taking my time with this. Glissant is so smart. Sort of want to run straight back to La Lezarde/The Ripening, which I read only about 18 months ago, and to which this holds an odd relationship.
Finished reading another Paul Beatty novel. Fun, like the others, somehow more optimistic?
Finished reading this. Bulgakov is always amusing and sometimes more.
Some of the drawings included exhibit a pleasing Malcy Duff-ishness.
Nice little essay/lecture by Klee, particularly interesting on relationship between Romanticism and Modernism, and quite charming all in all.
Finished this strange book. Differing densities of fact and fiction throughout, indeterminate, like mass and wave in subatomic particles.
A curious variant on the flight from East to West traced in several of Roth's works. 'Do you think you could manage to tell me precisely what constitutes this culture which you claim to defend, even though it is in no way threatened from outside?'
Grim depiction of war and the spread of madness. Not read Andreyev before, but easy to read in his expressionism a hinge between 19th and 20th century Russian literature.
I read this today. It's sharp, and sad.
I don't quite know what to make of this one. Engaging, certainly, but sort of unpleasant too.
Still in the glow of The Lonely Londoners, I read another Selvon. Short stories, not as extraordinary as the LLs, but glowing, still, and thoroughly enjoyable
Really beautiful, this.
A whole bunch came into a charity shop I frequent last year. I read a couple and enjoyed them a lot, novels paced like jokes, somehow. Might do the Cairo trilogy next?
Actual nonagenarian's dreams, micro-short stories, shortening, repetition of themes. Quite the late style.
Short stories from Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean press from 1980s, following the book's banning in colonial Rhodesia. Few stories, each very brief, but like glances conveying worlds.
Never having previously read G Stein, but picked d up cheap, and enjoyed 1. The innuendo and 2. Facility with rhythm.
