It used to be that eight-tracks and cassettes were a top force in the world of pre-recorded music, but try to find them today and you’ll come up empty handed. In days gone by the only way to hear your favorite album while driving in your car was with a tape player, which often...
MP3 pirating and selling has put an enormous hurt on the music industry over the past ten years, and CD sales have declined because of it. Analogue sound has become somewhat of a luxury today, and numerous people say it sounds a lot better than digital counterparts. Even the latest artists have been putting...
Is there a box of vintage vinyl records sitting in your garage? Maybe someone gave you some of their old albums. Before you decide to trash them or drop them off at your community thrift store, you may want to look at what you have. You might be surprised to know that people everywhere...
Everyone has their own iPod, and digital music reigns over all else in this day and age, but that’s no substitute for taste, and when it comes to exploring a more organic sound from your favorite bands, there is nothing like experiencing them on vinyl records. Vinyl delivers a pure, organic sound that’s unmatched...
It is a difficult time to own an independent record store. With the world of digital music, finding and downloading your favorite albums is simple. Independent record stores stay open due to a small group of music fans who want to experience something more. Many of these places have to do more than just...
Vinyl albums are starting to make a nice little comeback. Just by researching the internet and walking the streets, you will see record albums in places that might surprise you. You will even find new artists releasing record albums and jumping in on this new wave. We can only hope that younger music lovers...
Many people today do not care about owning an actual copy of their music. The affordable nature of buying and storing various tracks has overshadowed the cover pictures and physical music medium. Luckily developing a vinyl record collection remains very possible, since many people still own and would like to get rid of their...
The quality of sound of even the most affordable devices today generally sounds much better than their analogue grandfathers’ quality. Sometimes making a single track in a project sound vintage can be the right sound the producer or artist wants when recording. In order to get the proper sound to reproduce the vintage sound,...
The very first device that could record and play sounds back was the phonograph, created by Thomas Edison following the mid 1800s. Although there is no direct evidence that it was based on the design and style, the phonautograph had come out not much before but only allowed waveforms to be recorded. Tin foil...
There are trends, fads and flashes in the pan that pull in a lot of attention at first, but then fade quickly from memory after they are brought outdoors and seen in the unyielding clarity of pure sunlight, never to be heard from again, and often that’s probably just as well; however, this is...