downloaded apple lossles: dropped it in iTunes, not getting it on my iPhone
downloaded flac; converted it to apple lossless: dropped it in iTunes, not getting it on my iPhone
wth is going on?
Just grabbed the CD from HMV. They only ordered one copy and held it back for me behind the till. Guess that is what happens when you're known as the NIN guy in my town.
Umm...Year Zero 2 anyone?
Don't get me wrong, great album...really enjoyed it the first time through...seeing them in April.
To me, though, the music, lyrics, production are eerily similar to Year Zero.
That's rather interesting about the effect. Thanks.
By the way, just found it funny you mentioned the computer monitor speakers. Honestly, I almost exclusively listen to music on an older stereo system I have or with headphones. My car system is good too, though I generally don't trust manufacturer sound systems for heavy detail. I use a 160gb iPod Classic for most playback but I play the CDs or burnt copies of vinyl rips at home and sometimes in my car as the difference is noticeable on higher-fidelity recordings. Just saying.
If they really are 24/48 to 24/96 transcodes, there should be a lot of bitching over at Hydrogenaudio. Remember the error with the Slip hi-fi files? They fixed it immediately. If the HTDA files are bad, you'd think they would notice immediately.
Aside from that, goddamn, WO is compressed as fuck, even in 24-bit.
Actually I think I read the opposite, Trent loves physical releases which reflect in the effort Rob and himself but to each release,
I actually remember in the same article that he'd love to release CD's (the popular media at the time) but in a Vinyl sleeve,
so the, say album, you buy will look like a Vinyl back to front but just contain the CD in the sleeve instead.
Guess he's kinda done it now with the Vinyl/CD release of WO
Also, I guess I was close with guessing that it was the source samples and/or instruments used that created the weird frequency shelf.
Anyone know if there are any banners for the album?
Does Apple Lossless generally take FOREVER to download even when in a zip file?!?!
This is my first time ever downloading that format. Always went w/ MP3 zip before.
I ended up 86'ing the Apple Lossless download. My PC is bursting at the seams as it is. Went with MP3 zip. Just wanted to hear the damn thing.
I like that (reference)Originally Posted by Mariqueen Maandig Reznor
seeing as most humans can't hear anything above 20kHz, i don't understand why people are so eager for anything above 48kHz (in case you don't know, the sample rate should be at least twice what you're trying to reproduce...thus 48kHz allows you to reproduce sounds up to 24kHz). i, personally, record at 44.1kHz because i don't like trans-coding from 48 down to 44.1
yeah yeah pitchfork sucks i get it go fuck yourself, but this is several points well made:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/...come-oblivion/
Pretty accurate review of the record I'd say.
...and ow, HTDA wasn't even the "worst" reviewed record today....they panned that new Suuns albums kind of.
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Made a FB note of the questions and answers, hope this helps if you don't like the reddit site: https://www.facebook.com/notes/ninhu...51361139838867
Don't care what Pitchfork says. They'll give mediocre reviews to good records but review a Lil B album like it's a serious work of art. They suck.
I don't mind Pitchfork but Grayson Currin is a fucking hack. He has several reviews were he meanders on about different bands, or more often, nothing, for half the review and others, such as his review for Exai, which miss the point more than Stevie Wonder doing archery. Not surprised to see the HDTA review is no different.
i'm really sick of people thinking that the sustained-note reverb effect that they've employed a couple of times (a la the space in between) keeps being mistaken for auto-tune. trent has stated that they don't auto-tune vocals, and it really doesn't even sound that much like auto-tune.