Anyone who reaches back and rediscovers the original reamping will rediscover the excitement that was associated with it at that time. ...
You just eminded me of Pete Anderson reamping guitar tracks for Dwight Yoakam... I had forgotten about that and hadn't equated it with the Herzog, but it's the same thing (once we're talking about an interface box rather than a complete amp device).
... most of the music listened to these days is done on headphones where the largest element of why we love amps is missing. I know I am old as I cannot listen top music through the things you put in your ears. ...
First off, point taken: speaker moving air, thump in your chest, etc. Yes, there is no substitute.
That said, I now listen to music through headphones, as it's cheaper to get world-class headphones and headphone amps and you don't have to worry about the room boogering your sound. That and I can listen any hour of the day or night in an apartment setting with no worry. But there are some massive qualitative differences between what I'm using and the $20 earbuds many have (though I do have a set of $20 earbuds which are disproportionately good for the price).
So I'm enjoying recorded music better with headphones than I could any other way without being independently wealthy... But I know a bedroom amp with headphones won't give the same visceral experience that a cranked Marshall will. I guess there's a time and place for everything...
I did not say I do not have headphones. I have some very nice ones, but I have never been able to use earbuds.
I acquired a taste for headphones in my early teens when I could not listen to speakers playing Sabbath at the level I wanted to hear. Also, it is absolutely necessary to listen through headphones when recording as that is how the majority of listeners will hear music of today.
Just last night I had on headphones and was reamping in the style of Pete Anderson, who IMO is a great engineer. I was just speaking to a time lost. Napster really had an impact and put what the Sony Walkman was doing in overdrive.
HBP, I hope you know what I was saying in no way, not even close, has any reference to your headphone rig. I am talking about an ipod, with $10 jbuds listening to mp3 compressed music. Funny to think about how much trouble and money is put into getting the perfect recording, only to be compressed to mp3. What is even stranger to me is how many people cannot hear any difference. Nothing wrong with doing this, but it is a completely different experience.
Back to my original point of the excitement and to become completely animated with music. To be so involved with it that the sense of time is lost. We who have had that experience were not listening to an ipod with jbuds. You cannot feel your guitar vibrate unless you are thumping those strings man.
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