Scale the Summit's "Master" Fail
Reply #40 – 2013-02-24 21:40:33
... Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. ... I can't change Science and I can't change the relevant facts. ... Are we seeing some control issues? ;-) ... This isn't bait, its just my personal opinions. I find any attempt to suppress them to be indicative of a lack of desire to participate in a potentially mutually beneficial discussion. Denial of what? You haven't presented one thing to the contrary save for more snark and condescension. Not only are you a scientist with nothing to say to correct my metaphysical beliefs, but now you're a psychologist as well; diagnosing people through simple internet comments. Again: SUPPRESS WHAT?? If you're trying to have a productive conversation tell me why I'm wrong rather than pounding off nothing but insults and condescension on your keyboard. How in the living breathing hell do you expect me to "participate in a potentially mutually beneficial discussion" when you have thus far contributed nothing of substance but insults? "I seriously doubt that any record company management does the detailed technical investigation that would be necessary to ensure that all previous production steps happened in formats with a higher sample rate and/or data word size than Redbook CD." ...is this conjecture? Sounds like conjecture to me. If by 'I seriously doubt" you mean metaphysical yap yap... Meanwhile...I'll be asking a few more labels and seeing what responses they give me. They could just make shit up, but that's life, Dr. Krueger. At some point we have to take people at their word. ...or waste our lives in a fruitless search to uncover every conspiracy and "suppression" of truth. (If you'd like to be spoken to and treated differently than this remember it's reciprocal. Start over with this in mind: I'm a stranger to you and you're a stranger to me. We wouldn't speak to each other like this on the streets...I would hope.)It's a long time since I was involved in the manufacturing side of the music industry. Given this :Regarding submission via red-book...............I think there is quite a bit of naivete about how this process actually works. Again, how do you think this is handled between big-name studios and big-name labels? Do you think CD-Rs are never used? and this: Can anybody tell what the normal process is these days? At some point the "Master" must be in Redbook format. When does it happen if not at the pressing stage? That's a great question. I'd like to learn it as well. There are enough viable and sonically-equivalent options that are being widely used that it would take an expensive detailed market survey to determine which is the most widely used. I seriously doubt that any record company management does the detailed technical investigation that would be necessary to ensure that all previous production steps happened in formats with a higher sample rate and/or data word size than Redbook CD. There is a long tradition of taking whatever the artist provides. Most media managment is happy enough to have the music in a recognizable form. For example, we now have credible technical evidence that something like half of all SACD and DVD-A releases were upsampled from media that was Redbook or worse. Much of it was very much sub-redbook.If it contains a disc image or some other kind of digital file(s) it wouldn't matter. I'm going to go ahead and assume that it's probably not an audio CD that's been burned. I actually work at a small indie label, and we request that all our submissions be in .WAV format and just put them on an 8gb flashdrive along with the art files for printing/pressing . It's lossless, and as long as it's burned as a data CD and not audio (which you can't tell from the picture) there's no loss in quality. Can you tell me (if you know) if LPs are generally pressed from Redbook files?