Ableton Forum

I agree with what you say Mr. McBoob.

I think vinyl will eventually die but not on the short timescale that people (myself included) used to think it would.

There is a culture that surrounds vinyl that is more than the medium on it's own.

illsub1 wrote:Vinyl will be here when the magnetic pole shift erases everything else. Then your precious digital will be dead.

Er, why?

the earth's geomagnetic field reverses itself every so often. there is no pattern to when this happens, though the magnetic field is getting weaker, and the poles are moving.
though i've no idea what that has to do with my itunes library... ? illsub1?

Yeah, I meant, why would a pole shift kill digital gear? Last time I checked, my computer doesn't run on magnetic energy or have a compass-dependent hard drive.

It's the EMP after a nuclear blast that's meant to kill electrical gear isn't it?

true, but if it comes to that, i reckon we'll have bigger problems than not being able to get stuff off beatport

.... that's more like it....

Vinyl ain't dead. My latest dig...

Actually, I know, but I thought it was cool that the Ableton logo could be the "ea" in "dead".
It kinda looks like two decks as well...

I just played a gig with records, there was a main mixer, DJMX00, it had plugged into it 2 CDJs and the laptops of the featured acts, also plugged into it was a second mixer, a POS Behringer with 2 POS 1200s that was offstage.... sign of the times? seemed like and afterthought? I dunno, I think the computer has the potential to always sound better, I mean just about all the records with electronic dance music were made with a computer, then converted to analogue, and if your playing with a computer, it is converted as soon as it enters the PA. After this gig, I am hell bent on getting an Ableton set together.

djsynchro wrote:Actually, I know, but I thought it was cool that the Ableton logo could be the "ea" in "dead".
It kinda looks like two decks as well...

Kinda was cool... maybe we could turn it into a sticker!

they keep saying vinyl is dead but since i started djing 7 years ago and we still see people like sven vath go out and do vinyl only sets, or some really cool mainly vinyl online record stores.

i will never go back to djing with vinyl but i think vinyl has still a long way to go...

peace!

Official numbers for 2008:

According to Nielsen SoundScan, vinyl LP sales grew by 89% in 2008, with 1.88 million new LPs sold. Radiohead's "In Rainbows" was the best vinyl seller in 2008 with 25,800 copies sold. Second place went to The Beatles' "Abbey Road" with 16,500 sold.

Looks like you should say something else is dead with your Ableton logo sticker thing. How about Project 5?

No I'm gonna keep the text on the sticker, it's eyecatching...
If you have a record player and a normal mixer but no phono pre-amp here's a free plug-in to apply the RIAA curve:
http://www.vacuumsound.de/plugins.html

FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

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