Monthly Archives: August 2011

Half Full

Maybe I’m just fat and happy in a fool’s paradise. Maybe I’m a cock-eyed optimist, immature and incurably green. Maybe I have spent my life in such a protected bubble of cultural and social privilege that I can’t even conceive … Continue reading

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Epic Fail, Dude

Every few years a catchphrase enters the public consciousness and erupts into a fad, then it fades away, leaving behind only an empty husk, no longer useable in any sense but the sardonic. Perhaps we can offer those sad, abused, … Continue reading

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Vinyl to Digits

In my most recent post I covered the importance of cleaning a vinyl (or shellac) record before making a digital dub. At this point I’m going to assume that you have cleaned your candidate for digital immortality. Now it’s time … Continue reading

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Clean ‘Er Up

I recently digitized a few LPs for a friend. He was duly impressed by the lovely sound that his presumably obsolete vinyl discs were still capable of producing, so he asked me to show him how I remastered an LP … Continue reading

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Battle of the Speeds

From time to time the recording industry indulges in a format-war blowout, inevitably to consumer disadvantage. A current medium comes to be seen as inadequate; competing companies introduce new, mutually-incompatible media that promise improvement; nobody talks to anybody else; the … Continue reading

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Teen Angst, Teen Comedy

Back when I was in my teens I often had the sneaking suspicion that the adults in my general vicinity were laughing at me behind my back. Chalk some of that up to generic teen paranoia. But my suspicions were … Continue reading

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Fresh Hearing

Another summer rounds the curve towards the final stretch to the forthcoming fall, for this combo academic-performer the dividing line between one year and the next. Casting my thoughts forward by a few weeks, I’m starting to think about those … Continue reading

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