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Can reggae vinyl survive in the digital age beyond "collector"status, i.e music vehicle?

Isn't it pretty much just "collectors" status right now?

We seem to like to trade quality for convenience, and this is just the latest example of it.

Vlad wrote:Can reggae vinyl survive in the digital age beyond "collector"status, i.e music vehicle?

No, simply because digital can be copied and transferred without limits. Outside of some specialist areas, vinyl is obsolete.

sad situation

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't 99% of new reggae recorded digitally? Not only recorded digitally but most of the instruments are computer sounds. So why should music created like this be presented in an analog format? Now if a musician/producer wants to issue their music on vinyl, then play with a real band and record it in analog. Kind of like Midnites landmark "Ras Mek Peace" and damn near everything that came from Studio One, Treasure Isle, etc.

In the world of photography there are a group of true photography nuts who insist on analog (film) and they expose, develop and enlarge their own work using tried and true non-digital processes. They shun digital when it comes to artistic, non-commecial works. If reggae is going to have a future in analog it will need a movement that begins in the studio.

Well, as we've mentioned here before, there is no shortage of "real bands" recording in the new roots style in JA for the past decade. But they do tend to record digitally. I guess lots of non-JA folks are keeping the analog flame alive. I'm open to that, particularly if they voice JA artists. Twilight Circus is producing mostly analog stuff. He uses some digital stuff for sound effects and stuff, but definitely live drums and analog recording. He also voices people like Michael Rose, Jah Stitch, Ranking Joe, Big Youth, etc. What little I've heard (clips) sounds pretty damn good to be honest. Haven't bought anything he's produced yet, so I can't say for sure how good it is. But I was surprised to see someone these days recording analog and voicing old school DJs like Big Youth.

it is not yet clear what will happen too vinyl ....

i think that vinyl will get an update, even better sound quality, longer lifetime, ...
so far this is the best way to stop piracy! ripping audio from a record is a time consuming process and one needs to know something about digital audio formats in order to get a good digital rip! most people can' do this, they don't have the wright technology and most of them are even to dumb to insert a cd and make a good sound rip of that!

plus the other good thins is the way buissines works! as long as there is a demand there will be a provider! so keep on buying is the only way of making sure that this formats stays alive!

some good friends of mine tall turned to cd's when they came on the scene and now they all return to the black gold! the record shops are all creating more and more space to place the vinyl ... so i sleep on both ears and knowing that this format will live longer thn cd's!

greetings

What is certain: nothing beats the poster format of the sleeve; I put my LPs on the wall, like trophies

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I suspect "vinyl warmth" is either distortion of the signal by the vinyl, or it's a type of placebo effect. I hear of this effect all the time, but it's always from people who have conducted the test themselves. I've yet to hear of a double-blind test turning up a consistent difference between pristine vinyl and CDs.