[LAU] Proposal for 'lo-fi' music competition

[david]

On 03/17/2014 12:27 PM, Benoît Rouits wrote:
> Le 17/03/2014 18:29, Louigi Verona a écrit :
>> Lo-fi competition is a great idea, imho.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Lorenzo Sutton
>> <lorenzofsutton at gmail.com <mailto:lorenzofsutton at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 17/03/2014 03:20, Paul Davis wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>         On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Lorenzo Sutton
>>         <lorenzofsutton at gmail.com <mailto:lorenzofsutton at gmail.com>
>>         <mailto:lorenzofsutton at gmail.__com
>>         <mailto:lorenzofsutton at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>              In light of the interesting discussion on sample rates I
>>         propose a
>>              music competition among LAU around production of music
>>         pieces with
>>              quality considered 'low' by current dominating
>>              professional/audiophile standards in the digital domain:
>>
>>              Specifics to be discussed, but I would start with the
>>         following:
>>
>>
>>         can we just re-record the beatles or miles davis from vinyl and
>>         consider
>>         it done?
>>
>>
>>     You got he point - well said :-)
>
> i have somewhere (if i can find it) some field recording taken with a
> mono, 8bit, 16KHz rate from a so-called dictaphone, overdubbed with a
> stereo piano track at 16bit/44.1Khz.. the effect is not so bad.
> Well, to say, lo-fi is interseting to me. this proposition is a good
> idea, and sometime big restrictions can lead to cool productions.
> - Ben

I could try recording things with my Palm Tungsten T3 PDA, it has a 
built-in mic. Getting recordings out adds yet another conversion step, 
since the only way I can get a recording out of it is to plug the 
headphone out jack into my sound card and record it as the PDA plays it ...

First piece of music I ever heard that had been digitized was a bit of a 
Van Halen song that had been digitized using a Commodore 64's direct 
input connection (an 8-bit connection direct to the CPU). The CPU ran at 
about 1MHz and spent about 25% of its cycles dedicated to video stuff, 
so I have no idea what the effective sample rate was. The singing and 
words were recognizable.

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