WHEN is it okay to resort to digital digging?

cluster wrote:

Lampdog wrote:Whatever source, doesn't matter...

IMO this is true...

However, try to stay with the best quality digital recordings u can find... You use a crappy mp3, it will sound crappy.

When I sample from cds, I mix in a sample of vinyl record playing a blank passage (during the quiet passages on vinyl, sample that).. When you add that on top, whammo vinyl sound, digital sample. Granted, we can argue all day about the dynamics of vinyl, and analogue vs. digital, but 99 percent of the listeners out there would not be able to tell the difference.

When you sample from CD's, you should rip the CD.

Why?

Better quality!

A PC can output better digital audio signals than traditional transports based on spinning CDs. Music data is ripped (extracted) from CDs (without error) to hard disk. This does away with spinning CDs in real-time during music playback. Bit-perfect data is read from hard disk to memory then upsampled with much better precision. This happens in a noisy environment but outside of any real-time clocking mechanism and no bits are mangled/lost (the essence of computing). Hence no jitter (or timing errors) occurs during data preparation stage.

D > D. Instead of D > A > D.

64hz wrote:I said it before and ill say it again, if my fart sounds good I would sample it.

aha

i am so sick of these lame topics !!!

be creative,, find what you like,, and use it ,,, very simple !!!

i feel like this same Q is asked once a week..

Lampdog wrote:

cluster wrote:When I sample from cds, I mix in a sample of vinyl record playing a blank passage (during the quiet passages on vinyl, sample that).. When you add that on top, whammo vinyl sound, digital sample.

I've done that SOO many times, lol.

I've also used a tape saturation effect in the master bus to give the feeling of, well, tape saturation (tape saturation - one of the reasons people record to tape and back to computer, blah blah blah), lol.

word. never messed with caseettes but yeah. good idea, analog warmth.

Doglamp wrote:Better quality!

A PC can output better digital audio signals than traditional transports based on spinning CDs. Music data is ripped (extracted) from CDs (without error) to hard disk. This does away with spinning CDs in real-time during music playback. Bit-perfect data is read from hard disk to memory then upsampled with much better precision. This happens in a noisy environment but outside of any real-time clocking mechanism and no bits are mangled/lost (the essence of computing). Hence no jitter (or timing errors) occurs during data preparation stage.

D > D. Instead of D > A > D.

Cheers mate.

"Re: WHEN is it okay to resort to digital digging?"

when a stranger from the internet tells you its ok... or when you start making your own decisions...

MP3 , CD , STREAM, Dvd, DVR ... I sample anything anywhere lol . Fix the sound to however you like, it's 2009 ... there's plugin's for everything.