Random Daily Banter

[First Aspect]

There were valid reasons for preferring analogue sound over digital, which were largely solved within a few years, but which have propped up sales of vinyl ever since.

 

[Pross]

There’s probably people out there who only listen to music on wax cylinders as it’s the only way to get that authentic sound.

 

[Mr Celine]

Rolling a spliff is easy on an album cover, difficult on a CD case and impossible on a download.

 

[Pblakeney]

Can't remember where the discussion was, but...

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Recently saw a post of a system consisting of a high end turntable, high end tube amps and a soundbar as speakers.
Can’t comment on how it sounded but can’t help thinking, why?

 

[icowden]

Recently saw a post of a system consisting of a high end turntable, high end tube amps and a soundbar as speakers.
Can’t comment on how it sounded but can’t help thinking, why?

There is a sort of excitement to it.

There is a chap round our way - Janek Schaefer - very eccentric - an avant garde sound artist and designer. He also does kids discos (and adults). One of the things critical to his success with his discos is that he brings turntables and huge collections of singles. The kids (and adults) have free reign to search through the boxes and bring a record up - he will then help them to start it up. There is something about the physical and tactile magic of a vinyl record that just doesn't exist in a download.

 

[laurentian]

There is a sort of excitement to it.

There is a chap round our way - Janek Schaefer - very eccentric - an avant garde sound artist and designer. He also does kids discos (and adults). One of the things critical to his success with his discos is that he brings turntables and huge collections of singles. The kids (and adults) have free reign to search through the boxes and bring a record up - he will then help them to start it up. There is something about the physical and tactile magic of a vinyl record that just doesn't exist in a download.

I think the "why" part of PBs post relates to "high end turntable, high end tube amps" being paired with "a soundbar as speakers" as opposed to some "proper" hi fi speakers

 

[briantrumpet]

With the deluge of crappy AI posters on Facebook and elsewhere, I'm starting to miss the days when people who had half mastered MS Word thought that an A4 page using three colours and ten different fonts (including comic sans, obvs.) was the height of professional poster design.

 

[AndyRM]

With the deluge of crappy AI posters on Facebook and elsewhere, I'm starting to miss the days when people who had half mastered MS Word thought that an A4 page using three colours and ten different fonts (including comic sans, obvs.) was the height of professional poster design.

It isn't?

That's where I've been going wrong all these years...

 

[Beebo]

With the deluge of crappy AI posters on Facebook and elsewhere, I'm starting to miss the days when people who had half mastered MS Word thought that an A4 page using three colours and ten different fonts (including comic sans, obvs.) was the height of professional poster design.

They are awful. Virtually identical in design.
Same colour palette, same cartoony pictures, same bullet point notices.

 

[briantrumpet]

It isn't?

That's where I've been going wrong all these years...

Even funnier when they sent them off to large professional printers as a plain DOC file. "Well, it looked really good on my screen at home!"

 

[AndyRM]

Even funnier when they sent them off to large professional printers as a plain DOC file. "Well, it looked really good on my screen at home!"

I did a web banner for a client once, 528x76, and they were adamant it could be blown up to billboard size. No matter how many times I said it wouldn't work, sending repeated mockups showing why and explaining over and over he just wouldn't listen.

"Just send me a PDF Andy, that's what the printer wants, I know what I'm talking about and I've already paid for your time!"

"You know what fine? Send it to this printer, she's the cheapest in Newcastle."

Knowing the printer well I'd already called ahead to warn them.

"It's cool Sarah, the guy's a real bellend and won't take a telling."

"He's gonna go mental."

"Aye, it'll be funny though."

Best thing is whenever he needs anything in large format, if I've not designed it, he always calls to ask me to check his artwork.

One of my finest hours as a designer.

 

[Pblakeney]

There is a sort of excitement to it.

There is a chap round our way - Janek Schaefer - very eccentric - an avant garde sound artist and designer. He also does kids discos (and adults). One of the things critical to his success with his discos is that he brings turntables and huge collections of singles. The kids (and adults) have free reign to search through the boxes and bring a record up - he will then help them to start it up. There is something about the physical and tactile magic of a vinyl record that just doesn't exist in a download.

You missed the point of my post. 😂

 

[briantrumpet]

I did a web banner for a client once, 528x76, and they were adamant it could be blown up to billboard size. No matter how many times I said it wouldn't work, sending repeated mockups showing why and explaining over and over he just wouldn't listen.

"Just send me a PDF Andy, that's what the printer wants, I know what I'm talking about and I've already paid for your time!"

"You know what fine? Send it to this printer, she's the cheapest in Newcastle."

Knowing the printer well I'd already called ahead to warn them.

"It's cool Sarah, the guy's a real bellend and won't take a telling."

"He's gonna go mental."

"Aye, it'll be funny though."

Best thing is whenever he needs anything in large format, if I've not designed it, he always calls to ask me to check his artwork.

One of my finest hours as a designer.

Ha, perfect!! I'd not picked up that you were a professional designer (apols), so you'd be more aware than most. Thankfully the few printers I've worked with on my own designs (mostly done, sorry, in CorelDraw, 'back in the day') were very understanding, but I'd always ask first what format they wanted it in, and welcomed feedback from them. Can't remember the format I used to have to export the CorelDraw files into, but I seem to remember that with a bit of a sceptical look from them it was good enough for what I needed at the time.

 

[AndyRM]

Ha, perfect!! I'd not picked up that you were a professional designer (apols), so you'd be more aware than most. Thankfully the few printers I've worked with on my own designs (mostly done, sorry, in CorelDraw, 'back in the day') were very understanding, but I'd always ask first what format they wanted it in, and welcomed feedback from them. Can't remember the format I used to have to export the CorelDraw files into, but I seem to remember that with a bit of a sceptical look from them it was good enough for what I needed at the time.

Not a bother.

We're cool if you just trust that we know what we're doing. Like, I wouldn't pretend to know the first thing about trumpeting...

Nowt wrong with Corel, still widely used, especially by those of us who resent Adobe for their monopolising of the industry: I will never forgive them for killing Macromedia. Equally I hate that all their advertising pushes their integrated AI tools.

Recently I've shown up to a couple of meetings with a pen and a sketchbook, much to the bafflement of the client.

 

[Ian H]

Not a bother.

We're cool if you just trust that we know what we're doing. Like, I wouldn't pretend to know the first thing about trumpeting...

Nowt wrong with Corel, still widely used, especially by those of us who resent Adobe for their monopolising of the industry: I will never forgive them for killing Macromedia. Equally I hate that all their advertising pushes their integrated AI tools.

Recently I've shown up to a couple of meetings with a pen and a sketchbook, much to the bafflement of the client.

Stop me if I've told this story before:-

A customer came in wanting labels for his bottles (wine, I think). He brought a pencil sketch on feint-ruled notepaper for the design. We produced artwork, he approved it, and we printed the labels. He then objected to the the artwork element of the invoice on the grounds that he'd supplied artwork. Which made us laugh.