Soundtracks on Vinyl (Let it be a thing!)

Post » Thu Oct 15, 2015 7:21 pm

Originally I contacted Bethesda to see if they would be interested in bringing Fallout 3's soundtrack, and possibly Fallout 4's, to life on vinyl albums. The genres of the songs you are listening to as you fight mutants and are abducted by aliens while exploring a post apocalypse wasteland are seemingly perfect to have on a hard copy record. Especially now that vinyl is back on the rise.
Bethesda got back to me and said if I gathered enough support, it could very much be a thing!
But now that I am here, wouldn't the Elder Scrolls games make just as good a record? Honestly they do such a magnificent job with their soundtracks that any of their games could make a Killing (get it??? I'm sorry, I'm a dork)
Post your opinions or which game you think would have the best album, Y'kno... for conversation sake
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Floor Punch
 
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Post » Fri Oct 16, 2015 1:11 am

Ugh. UGH!

Why yes, I would love to buy a piece of outdated technology to listen to my favourite music, and I'm sure I'll enjoy the hitty sound quality as well. <_<

Can we please take off our nostalgia glasses and throw them in the trash? I already went through the trouble of digitizing my entire vinyl collection (Including cleanup of the sound files) and I'm very glad to be rid of it.

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NEGRO
 
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Post » Thu Oct 15, 2015 9:57 pm

I would buy Morrowind, for sure.

Incorrect.
High-quality 180 gram vinyl sounds much richer than a CD, and that's a fact. ;)
(and mp3s are much lower quality, no question there.)

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James Baldwin
 
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Post » Fri Oct 16, 2015 5:22 am

mp3s? naa, flac files are a much better choice for digital audio tracks

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Mel E
 
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Post » Fri Oct 16, 2015 5:11 am

CDs are also outdated and need to disappear :P

If they would offer game music in FLAC format I would buy it without question.

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Stacey Mason
 
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Post » Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:47 pm

Laser Disc sounds so much better.
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Hot
 
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Post » Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:34 pm

Modern vinyl soundtracks are essentially a piece of merchandise. People like the physical aspect of it. It's definitely something the enthusiast crowd would buy.


As for the sound quality, a properly handled vinyl release is going to sound virtually indistinguishable from a digital one. The signal to noise ratio is going to be worse, but it's more in the realm of measurable rather than perceivable by humans. anolog signals are much more suspectible to non-linearities causing distortions as they are transfered. Whether you actually like the way those distortions manifest is another question altogether. But then, there's nothing stopping you from putting the same distortions on a digital format if you so desired.

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Robyn Lena
 
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Post » Thu Oct 15, 2015 5:57 pm

Cleanup how? You mean noise reduction? You know that's like, one of the worst things in the world for sound quality, right?
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jasminε
 
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Post » Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:24 pm

http://mondotees.com/collections/music?page=4 is the only place I can think of for vinyl soundtracks... Holy sh there are posters still available.

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Katie Samuel
 
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Post » Fri Oct 16, 2015 5:16 am

No no nothing quite so drastic, just cleaning up loud noises and skips on the most damaged records. Took ages but it was worth it imo.

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Jaylene Brower
 
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Post » Thu Oct 15, 2015 6:36 pm

I prefer burning my music on water......
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Cheville Thompson
 
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Post » Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:52 pm

But you have to demagnetize it more often than CDs.
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flora
 
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Post » Thu Oct 15, 2015 2:36 pm

wait what are you referencing?
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Terry
 
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Post » Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:21 am

http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/65896/HiFi-Tuning-CD__DVD__Blu-ray_Demagnetizer-CD_Care

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Post » Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:18 pm

Gods no. Please never let physical copies disappear. Physical art is important. Lyrics sheets and album credits are additional bonuses. And I don't want to have to go to a printing shop to print them out from a PDF. -_- These things are so valuable.

That being said, I'm never going to buy a vinyl record (no, not even for a Fallout soundtrack. :P ). They're way too impractical. CDs at least still have some technology supporting them. I do see why you would release a Fallout vinyl in particular, though, with its throwback aesthetic.

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Post » Fri Oct 16, 2015 4:50 am

Fallout 3's OST is coming to vinyl, why not the others?

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Post » Thu Oct 15, 2015 7:16 pm

I lived through some of the vinyl era (I bought my first 45 and first album in 1962) and I have no love for vinyl records. I used to pray for some new technology to replace vinyl and tape. I was so glad when compact discs showed up. And now that digital downloads are are a thing I've stopped buying CDs too.

I'm glad that companies still produce vinyl records for those who want them. But I'm never buying another one as long as I live.

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Post » Fri Oct 16, 2015 3:05 am


Lol I was referencing an episode of Metalocalypse where they actually recorded there music on water actual water! it was a pretty funny scene.

https://youtube.com/?#/watch?v=pjK5d0_Yd8Y
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Post » Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:12 pm

Couldve sworn it was older than 2012

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Post » Thu Oct 15, 2015 6:23 pm

Similar story for me, too, though I think my first vinyl purchase was in the mid 70's. It has been nearly 25 years since I owned a record player. No desire to buy one again :)

While I support others' passions for vinyl, I'll sit back and enjoy my digital music. My ears are not so refined that I can tell a significant difference :)

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Post » Fri Oct 16, 2015 3:40 am

You may like the particular distortion vinyl introduces, but CD's have better fidelity, and that is a fact. If you print the same master to both vinyl and CD (although you'd have to sacrifice some of the potential of the CD, as the former has significantly less dynamic range), the CD will reproduce it more accurately. The only way for the CD to be objectively worse is for the engineer to screw it up... which, sadly, is more or less standard these days*, due to, essentially, Executive Meddling?. Vinyl, being produced for a niche market, may get better treatment and end up objectively better that way, but it is still inferior to what a CD master could be if it were done right.

I'd dig out technical stuff to cite as sources, but I'm sick and unenthusiastic at the moment.

*Further reading: look up the loudness race.

I agree that hardcopy is worth having (at least as an option), but one could argue that they're outdated compared to DVD-Audio or BluRay :tongue: (I mean, imagine what you could do for audio if you had over seventy times the data capacity to play with... it'd be practically limitless. Or you could fit entire discographies of even prolific artists, or...).
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Mr. Ray
 
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Post » Fri Oct 16, 2015 4:43 am

Huh. Why hasn't the music market moved to those formats?

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Brandi Norton
 
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Post » Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:15 am

CD is good enough -more than enough for the average consumer- and CD players are widespread, while BluRay is so far limited to video players, computers, and high end audio gear (which probably also offers video playback, because it'd be a small additional expense when producing a $1000 device :tongue:). There's also a whole lot of equipment on the manufacturing side that would need upgrading to produce BluRay discs, and the media is cheaper as well. So the big guys have little motivation to push it into the mainstream, and it will remain a niche product, just as SACD did (and hopefully not die of like DVD-A).

EDIT: I should clarify that, while newer formats like BluRay are better, CD's are already fairly good; 16bits if enough to cover the entire frequency range that humans can hear (a little more than, actually), and most recordings these days only use a fraction of the dynamic range available to them (in order to make the album louder, it gets squished down and squeezed into the absolute top of the range, which can lead to clipping and other issues). So there's a lot of potential gains to be had simply from making better use of what we've got.

Earlier Mogwai material makes full use of dynamic range (I gather their more recent stuff has diverged on that front), and I've found Mad Season's Above (their only release...) to be an excellent example of a well-mastered CD (if there's been a remaster, you'll almost certainly want to avoid that :yuck:). I assume classical music is usually mastered to a high standard, as your typical listener would be wanting maximal clarity and to hear as much detail as possible (and would be rather upset if the quietest parts of the composition -which are sometimes barely a whisper- were artificially altered to be nearly the same as the loudest bits).
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Post » Thu Oct 15, 2015 8:23 pm

Vinyl in this age is a scam. Everything is recorded digitally, so you're not ever going to get anolog.

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Post » Thu Oct 15, 2015 8:56 pm

The only vinyl soundtrack I can think of offhand is Bioshock 2's. I've never played it because I can't be bothered to set up one of the record decks, and besides which, I'd probably ruin it on the first play anyway.


Yeah, same here. I'm glad things have moved on since the days when records and cassettes were the only viable choices for music. I admit I'm a fussy listener, but it seems that better codecs are gradually catching on for downloads such as FLAC, so I may eventually abandon CD buying too; but CDs' relative imperviousness to scratches and stuff made them a huge bonus over crackly records and scrunchy cassette tape!
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