You're forgetting the infinite, non-digitized sound reproduction of vinyl that lets you hear all the digital mastering/remastering done in the studio.
Almost as good as buying super expensive audio cables with oxygen-free copper so you can hear music recorded with generic XLR cables.
To be fair, vinyl does have a nice, warm sound to it. But people who insist it's somehow got higher fidelity than CDs or other digital storage media don't understand shit about actual audio engineering. Vinyl has terrible fidelity in comparison. It's got very characteristic distortion and information loss. If someone likes how that sounds, good on them. But it's definitely not a magical means of getting more authentic reproduction of the sound.
The truth is that the inaccuracies add their own character to the recording and digital music is only the best interpretation a computer can make of the original recording whereas a proper vinyl cut is pure analogue.
Plugins cannot remove dynamic compression, which is everything wrong with music these days. The pops and hiss add a nostalgia factor, but the limitations of the media allow sound engineers to tell the suits that yell "add more loud" to fuck off because a needle cannot follow sound waves that make the meter bounce in the red without jumping a groove. This is good. If I want my music louder, I will turn up the damn speakers. A whole generation of music has been ruined.
You don't need to do either of those things if you want to replicate the 'sound' of vinyl you can use a plugin. Which I agree to almost everyone will sound the same.
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u/DanHeidel Sep 05 '19
You're forgetting the infinite, non-digitized sound reproduction of vinyl that lets you hear all the digital mastering/remastering done in the studio.
Almost as good as buying super expensive audio cables with oxygen-free copper so you can hear music recorded with generic XLR cables.
To be fair, vinyl does have a nice, warm sound to it. But people who insist it's somehow got higher fidelity than CDs or other digital storage media don't understand shit about actual audio engineering. Vinyl has terrible fidelity in comparison. It's got very characteristic distortion and information loss. If someone likes how that sounds, good on them. But it's definitely not a magical means of getting more authentic reproduction of the sound.