Just as in the old model, the unknown band down the road wouldn't have gotten signed.

The concept of business has been around just long enough (longer than anyone alive) that people take it for granted. A sense of entitlement has arisen where we have somehow gotten the idea that business is the natural order of things. Almost like a machine where you put your hard work in on one end, and cold hard cash comes out the other end - and if it doesn't, then it must be somebody else's fault.

This is no more apparent than in the publishing industries. For a couple of generations they fell into a business model that worked so well for them - the ability to reproduce and control the supply of creative works on a physical medium; and be able to stick a large margin on it, enabled by marketing drives - that they begun to believe that being paid for somebody's creativity is the normal way of things. How they have forgotten that the service they provided was in an absolute sense, extremely new and so fundamentally reliant on a handful of fleeting technologies that are neither natural or fundamental to the works that they published.

Now it is normal to listen and to share music and other media, in the same way that it wasn't 20 years ago. The same way that 20 years ago it was possible to control the supply of music on a magnetic tape or plastic disc in the same way that it wasn't 50 years before that.

The talent, skill, experience and hard work required to create things that other people find interesting or entertaining is no less appreciated now than it ever was; but the talent, skill, experience and hard work required to then turn that into a viable business is a completely separate thing that should not be taken for granted, and one must adapt to the way things are now; not the way they used to be, in order to be successful.

If you are a creative person and you find a way to make a living doing what you love best then you should be grateful for having that chance. If you can't stand the idea of people appreciating your work without paying you - then find something else to do.

>> ^chingalera:

Some nasty-clean resolution on this old magnetic tape-Looks like a fat piece of wide strip form an archive.


Only the best for the Sift! =oP

Some nasty-clean resolution on this old magnetic tape-Looks like a fat piece of wide strip form an archive.

Analogue tapes? No such thing exists....magnetic tapes store data in magnetic polarity, positive and negative charge....this is digital. If you are looking for a truly analogue storage medium then youd be VERY hard pressed to find one, neigh Id go so far as to say it would be impossible to find one.

True analogue is to say an infinite state machine. Good luck!

Like I said, unless these guys are doing their recording directly to a master plate, with no digitisation in between, then there MUST be data lost in the process, no matter how good your ADC resolution is.

Wow, that deteriorated magnetic tape soundtrack is creeping me the fork OUT!!

so just a denoise and stabilize then?
come on, i could have done this
they didn't even fix the nonuniform levels

weren't they supposed to have found the original magnetic tapes in australia?

Fantastic. The Mellotron was strictly not a synthesizer though; it played back prerecorded samples from magnetic tapes. You can see the tapes in action at 2:22.

I like the sound. Sounds like magnetic tape played too much. Nice find.

If you get struck out side of a car you would want it to flow through you and into the ground... not just circulate around your body.

BTW I don't think a lightning strike will let you survive, it is rare and this video is a troll(Fake).

>> ^Bluebeard:
>> ^NordlichReiter:
nsfw
BTW most electrical damage to the body involves massive burning and entry and exit wounds, thats... if you are grounded. You better hope you are grounded because if you aren't its not going to be good.

Surely the point is you don't want to be grounded!?! If you are grounded, electricity flows THROUGH you to the ground. If you aren't grounded, it won't. Eg: Being sat in a car, the rubber tyres insulate the car and prevent it being grounded.
Oh and fake IMO, I don't think there is any way a camera would survive a lightning hit to make the film recoverable. Magnetic tape would probably burn and a digital one would never survive.

>> ^NordlichReiter:
nsfw
BTW most electrical damage to the body involves massive burning and entry and exit wounds, thats... if you are grounded. You better hope you are grounded because if you aren't its not going to be good.


Surely the point is you don't want to be grounded!?! If you are grounded, electricity flows THROUGH you to the ground. If you aren't grounded, it won't. Eg: Being sat in a car, the rubber tyres insulate the car and prevent it being grounded.

Oh and fake IMO, I don't think there is any way a camera would survive a lightning hit to make the film recoverable. Magnetic tape would probably burn and a digital one would never survive.

...greta stuff, thanx for the turn-on....reminds of Laurie Anderson, her prepared violin, with the magnetic tape on te bow.....different altogether,..and similar