Tool vinyl bootleg quality with so many pressings and not much by way of quality review anywhere that i can find i m looking for a review on the sound quality of any tool vinyl bootlegs of aenima lateralus 10 000 days and salival.
Bootleg vinyl sound quality.
The two bootlegs i bought recently were live shows.
The most common type is the live bootleg or audience recording which is created with sound recording equipment smuggled into a live concert many artists and live venues prohibit this form of recording but from the 1970s onwards the increased availability of portable technology made such bootlegging easier and the general quality of these recordings has improved over time as consumer.
Information on the difference in sound quality between the various vinyl bootlegs was even harder to find.
The problem with most bootlegs is that they typically have absolutely horrible audio quality and sound worse than if they d been recorded with a microphone being flushed down the toilet.
I record in 96k 24bit format and this format allows significantly higher sound quality than the 44 1k 16bit of cds.
During the 1970s an underground recording industry emerged.
Using audience recordings fm broadcasts and unreleased demo tracks as sources they were sold by mail order and independent shops.
Flac can handle up to 192k 24bit.
Sometimes like in the case of that green nirvana bootleg live at bbc1 radio that popped up a while back it was a show they played and it was the songs that didn t get released.
When i render a mix down to cd quality from 96 24 tracks and listen to the rendered mix i end up wishing that 96 24 was the typical resolution for music delivery.
The quality is pretty good and sometimes it gets really quiet and then really loud.