Is There Anybody Out There?

BigD-BluezBigD-Bluez
edited June 2011 in General
I'm a little underwhelmed by the addition of the rest of the Pink Floyd catalog at eMu today - I suppose mostly because I needed so very little of it, but more pointedly because the one album I lacked on CD, A Saucerful Of Secrets, is priced at $6.49 which is more than I want to pay for 39 minutes of music generally speaking. This is made more odiferous by the fact that in September a new batch of freshly re-mastered, re-packaged super deluxe Floyd releases, including an enormo-box, will be coming out. Those $0.79 single songs piss me off too. Interesting that the 1992 re-mastered version of Saucerful that the search at Guvera turned up is actually not available there.
Only bright spot today may be that the 3 disc deluxe Piper At The Gates Of Dawn is only $9.74 which I guess is not bad (if you hadn't grabbed what you needed during the EMI bonanza at Guvera last fall).

Comments

  • jonahpwlljonahpwll
    Don't let them poison your nostalgia.

    It's one thing to go over your "limit" to get something that's new to you. But when you've got emotional attachment to an album, the last thing you want to do is begin attaching buyers remorse to that connection.

    Fuck that noise. Buy that shit elsewhere!
  • BigD-BluezBigD-Bluez
    Well, I still have my Piper/Saucerful two-fer cassette to keep me all warm and fuzzy analog fashion.
  • ScissorManScissorMan
    How's the tape hiss on that cassette? I only have the vinyl double-LP, and the scratches and pops were pretty cool until everybody else started (over-)using them on trip-hop records.

    I have to admit, I'm tempted by the remastered stereo version of "Bike"... except that I promised myself I would never spend more than $0.49 per-track at eMu, no matter what it was. And I keep my promises, dang it!
  • BigD-BluezBigD-Bluez
    I've never been that troubled by tape hiss. I will not even use Dolby NR most of the time because it cuts off a perceivable amount of top end to me. Such a dinosaur. And I too have vowed not to pay more than $0.49 a track dammit. It's a matter of principle. Of course I did pick up a number of Floyd tracks at Guvera last September.
  • Dr. MutexDr. Mutex
    For me the consumer Dolby in tape decks caused intolerable distortion on any sibilant or fast-attack sounds that I recorded with Dolby at any reasonable level. At -20 dB I didn't get distortion, but I didn't get much signal on the tape either. This is all with good Maxell or TDK low-noise, high-bias tape. I never had many pre-recorded cassettes but on the ones I had I found the same as BD-B, turning on the Dolby (on pre-recorded tapes with Dolby) killed the high end. Playing without the Dolby leaves the high end too bright, but you can tame that with an equalizer.
  • Dr. MutexDr. Mutex
    edited June 2011
    I liked Maxell tape better than TDK. If you pulled the tape out of shell and looked at it, Maxell was perfectly even and smooth as glass*. TDK had wavy patches, and you could hear when they went through. Although some people like that sort of thing.

    *edit: The oxide side of the Maxell Hi-bias was so smooth and shiny that it was hard to tell which side was which. More than once I've gotten it backwards when splicing tape.
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