Re: [LAU] Limiters?

On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:30:09 -0700
Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 05:47:59PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Hartmut Noack
> > <zettberlin@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > >If I really believe, that an artist may have take the effort to
> > >make a real
> > > album, I use to buy that album as a vinyl and listen to it the
> > > classical way: on a real stereo without doing anything else an
> > > side by side.
> >
> > fetishization of a technological accident ought to be a sin, right
> > up there with coveting thy neighbour's spouse.
> >
>
> Hm, what about guitar feedback then? Or tube saturation distortion,
> for that matter? Or echoplex feedback?
>
> There are at least a few cases where technological accidents-- or
> gear being pushed beyond its boundaries-- caused a very desirable,
> very musical effect.
>
> I think it was Brian Eno who said the appeal of distortions like tube
> saturation, film grain, pixellation, tape saturation, etc., was that
> it gives the impression that the emotion or meaning is so strong that
> it strains or breaks the medium that's trying to convey (or contain?)
> it, and that's the reason it sounds or looks so exciting.
>

but Paul said *fetishization* of a technological accident... while these
things you list are good and have changed for example the guitar world,
as a guitarist I really am bored by their fetishization - see
recent thread on effected guitar recording.

cheers
renato
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Received on Mon Jul 11 16:15:02 2011