Quote from: quiller on January 12, 2016, 01:15:27 AMI can think of a dozen sound-alike girl groups from the 60s, and even back into the 40s with the Boswells, and Andrews, Sisters ruling that roost.

Did they have Pentium making them sound tolerable?

To me that is the difference. You are not listening to a musician, you are listening to a computer program.

Quote from: ZQuickSilverZ on January 12, 2016, 01:41:27 PM
Who else knew this was coming. I knew......I knew.

I am old enough to remember that television killed the Old Time Radio star.

Quote from: ZQuickSilverZ on January 12, 2016, 01:43:29 PM
Did they have Pentium making them sound tolerable?

More likely it was an RCA-77DX studio microphone and a really good audio engineer who understood microphone placement. Live orchestras also helped. Today's studio dweebs think every channel and instrument has to be equal volume. (Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" it ain't.)

From David Bowie's final album Black Star, here's "Lazarus"....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8

Turn it up. Turn it up NOW.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8CcTYsMHYU

This sums-up The Buggles' legacy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpTeYDEfQpQ

Gentlemen, may she have your attention.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-PCLG0SLkU

Songs of gypsies
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeto_MM0xEg

Quote from: quiller on January 12, 2016, 03:56:37 PM
More likely it was an RCA-77DX studio microphone and a really good audio engineer who understood microphone placement. Live orchestras also helped. Today's studio dweebs think every channel and instrument has to be equal volume. (Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" it ain't.)

I think your knowledge of music technology exceeds mine just a weeeeeeeeeeee bit. 

Quote from: ZQuickSilverZ on January 15, 2016, 01:05:51 PM
I think your knowledge of music technology exceeds mine just a weeeeeeeeeeee bit. 

Actually, I was wrong. The 77-DX was the classic "Old Time Radio" studio microphone, either on a boom for multiple speakers or (more usually) a pedestal base for desktop use. It had a warm sound that later microphones often lacked, even in the analog era. I mentioned it because the American Forces Radio & Television Service had a dozen of them at their headquarters studio in Tokyo, where I worked. It's a truly sweet sound from one of these.



Nowadays the Shure SM57 or SM58 will probably be most common for live-performances and narration.

Quote from: kalash on January 15, 2016, 09:39:35 AM
Songs of gypsies

Not bad.  I'd need the songs to be stand-alone presentations to judge them. 

This is a favorite discovery of mine from last year.  -Has more of a rockabilly-appeal if partyers felt like dancing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtauWfxhI-M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAwiyQTA4s0

In 1915 wireless phone calls were mach more expensive then now 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MDbs1hQXvw

Song in english
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1ZSptCQj4

Why do you come to an American web site, to post videos of things Americans aren't interested in?