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Hey all - Happy New Year!
Rich [StoMo] from Stolen Moments Audio [in VT] here.

I haven't visited rec.audio.pro for a few years. Glad to see it still exists - even in limited form. People on this forum were such a great help to me personally as I was trying to devour as much as I could about music production and recording.

It's time to clean out & dismantle the home studio - and I ran across a few sets of RAP CD's WITH PROGRAMS & NOTES for some - that I compiled. I'd like them to go to the best use for the most people. It is quite a treasure chest of audio education.

So -- I'm looking for suggestions on how to do that. I don't suspect that anyone will mass produce these again but (licensing aside) it wouldn't be the worst idea.

I believe I have 5 CD volumes + the record from Scott. But it will take me a bit to gather them and organize them. For that (and shipping) I'll expect token compensation.

If I don't get responses to that end here, I may go to the auction site.

Best...
Rich
vermontjazz - at - gee-mail - dot - com

[Scott Dorsey]

wrote:
It's time to clean out & dismantle the home studio - and I ran across a few sets of RAP CD's WITH PROGRAMS & NOTES for some - that I compiled. I'd like them to go to the best use for the most people. It is quite a treasure chest of audio education.

Oh no! Are you shutting down?

I think somehow donating a set of discs and notes to a school of music might
not be a bad plan. I will say, though, that I am missing a couple of the sets
because someone borrowed them and did not return them decades ago, and I
-really- wish I still had the liner notes to The Man's cut...

I believe I have 5 CD volumes + the record from Scott. But it will take me a bit to gather them and organize them. For that (and shipping) I'll expect token compensation.

I have maybe another fifty LPs in storage somewhere. They're under a couple
crates of renaissance harp LPs and filk music LPs, and I'd also like them to
have a more useful home.
--scott


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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Dr2]

On 1/2/2019 9:22 PM, wrote:
Hey all - Happy New Year!
Rich [StoMo] from Stolen Moments Audio [in VT] here.

Glad to see it still exists - even in limited form. People on this forum were such a great help to me personally as I was trying to devour as much as I could about music production and recording.

Best...
Rich
vermontjazz - at - gee-mail - dot - com


Hi Rich
Yeah...I fondly remember some of the early conversations too... I was
soaking up information as fast as it was posted. And then when the
first RAP CD project was launched, I got lots of my questions
answered... and hearing everyone's work helped put some well-needed
weight behind a few opinions.

Sadly, it wasn't long after that, the signal to noise ratio got to be
too much. I got busy, rec.audio.pro got to be where people just
insulted each other. Heck, I can get that at work.

I just returned to this group a month or so ago to find it almost dead.
And the noise is just about the only voice left. I don't know if it
could be resurrected. I think the world has changed too much.



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[Peter Pollack]

I had a really nice conversation with Mark McQuilken a while back. I dont know him really; I had just contacted him about some parts. We reminisced about the old days on r.a.p...such a great, active group with excellent info and camaraderie.

Gearslutz is no substitute. Bedroom recordists extolling the virtues of consumer grade crap. €œWhat kind of toob would work best in my ART TubeMix?€� €œThis Waves plugin makes all my mixes AMAZING.€� Sigh. I studied audio at Columbia College. Did my graduate work here on rec.audio.pro. Kids nowadays have nothing. Not even a decent newsreader. Bums me out.

Pete

[Dr2]

On 2/15/2019 8:04 PM, Peter Pollack wrote:
I had a really nice conversation with Mark McQuilken a while back. I dont know him really; I had just contacted him about some parts. We reminisced about the old days on r.a.p...such a great, active group with excellent info and camaraderie.

Gearslutz is no substitute. Bedroom recordists extolling the virtues of consumer grade crap. €œWhat kind of toob would work best in my ART TubeMix?€� €œThis Waves plugin makes all my mixes AMAZING.€� Sigh. I studied audio at Columbia College. Did my graduate work here on rec.audio.pro. Kids nowadays have nothing. Not even a decent newsreader. Bums me out.

Pete

I feel your pain, Pete. Not long ago I had a young (20-something) kid
argue with me about MP3 files. His assertion was that MP3's were
higher quality than his original CD copies... and that he was actually
"up-sampling" them by this conversion to the magical format. Of
course, his proof was in listening tests with his favorite ear-buds.
SMH...
How many red flags can you get in one short conversation? I miss the
old days of not only R.A.P. but music in general. Those sensibilities
might never come back. I'm done holding my breath.

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[Trevor]

On 17/02/2019 2:47 pm, Dr2 wrote:
I feel your pain, Pete.Â*Â* Not long ago I had a young (20-something) kid
argue with me about MP3 files.Â*Â* His assertion was that MP3's were
higher quality than his original CD copies... and that he was actually
"up-sampling" them by this conversion to the magical format.Â*Â*Â* Of
course, his proof was in listening tests with his favorite ear-buds.

I've heard worse. We had a local HiFi magazine editor argue that MP3's
were better than CD 20 years ago. Then later deny he ever said it when
he realised what a fool he had made of himself! :-)