Comments on: Get to the point

By: Emalyse

Emalyse — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:44:39 +0000

This is no doubt a side effect of the ipod generation stuck in life’s shuffle mode.Few people sit and listen to an album start to finnish anymore because most digital formats just allow you to skip to the songs you like best. I suppose this move is innevitable and geared to keeping as many listeners as pos from skipping the station.Combine this with the jack radio format and it’s going to sound like someone quickly sampling their music collection.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:51:55 +0000

Not so much, really. Assuming you have some sort of recording software — most sound cards come with it, though integrated audio usually doesn’t, and check your CD/DVD-burning software while you’re at it — you need to connect the turntable (with preamplifier, if you have a magnetic cartridge, as most decent ones do) to the Line In connection on your sound card (a sorta-cheap adapter will likely be required). If you don’t have a separate preamp, the tape-output jacks of your amplifier or receiver will work just fine.

Audacity, which is my default sound editor, is a freebie from the open-source realm. It’s clunky but effective, and saves to its own format or exports to WAV, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:34:09 +0000

I may actually have my brother’s LP. If I do, that means I have the right to possess the 17-minute version! Which should mean that you should be able to make a copy of your dub for me and it should be legal.

But that would be too sensible. Alternatively (assuming I’m remembering right), how much is involved in being able to make a digital copy from an LP?

By: unimpressed

unimpressed — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:13:28 +0000

That’s a station (and format) I’ll avoid like the plague.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:48:10 +0000

Actually, this started out as a CD rip of the 45 version of the song, which ran 2:52. I loaded it into Audacity and threw away the middle.

I have an LP dub, but I figured it was easier to start on a smaller file. The seventeen-minute version is also on the Atlantic Rock & Roll box set, although the opening organ riff is clipped slightly.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:18:07 +0000

The only long version of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida I’ve found that approaches the whole-side-of-the-LP track I remember my brother having, was a live version that actually moved faster in the excerpt I listened to than the recorded single-size version I ultimately downloaded.

And the version I downloaded just doesn’t sound like the LP version either. The keyboard hook is too clean, for one thing.

Charles, I’m guessing you transferred the song from the LP onto digital, am I right? Otherwise, where did you find the original-sounding version you worked with?

By: Silflay Hraka

Silflay Hraka — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:14:08 +0000

Short Attention Span Theatre

Presenting the 1:45 version of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. I feel somewhat unfulfilled. But I also want to hear a 2:10 version of Alice’s Restaurant, now.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:09:00 +0000

Gimarc was the guy behind the Edge, right? I have no doubt he has lots of stories to tell.

By: Scott Chaffin

Scott Chaffin — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:53:17 +0000

The guy who’s running that operation is George Gimarc, and he’s kind of a Dallas radio legend. My wife did an interview with him not long ago, too.
http://finelinelive.com/2007/01/01/inside-the-mind-george-gimarc/

He’s a pretty sharp cookie, and you might be interested in hearing about the olde days of Dallas radio, Charles.

By: ms7168

ms7168 — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:58:07 +0000

OMG. A travesty I tell you! And yet just as it says chances are very likely that most people won’t even notice. After all it did cram the most sanguine parts in. Only =one= verse though! Wow.