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Terminal Boardumb => Music Shit => Pop Punk => Topic started by: m on May 14, 2012, 04:13:11 AM
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The resurrection of the flexidisc is on!
Showing the same signs of zombie life just like when cassettes became the new media and now there are lots of cassette only labels around the world, but I do believe in flexidisc, its quality is superior to cassette and very similar to vinyl, also can be accompanied by more artwork, like booklets and so on, I though about releasing some thing on flexidisc years ago and now finally I found few places where to press flexidisc and few labels too.
It is exciting...
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what's next? Music Sheet?
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it's always gonna be real simple. vinyl wins.
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I do believe in flexidisc, its quality is superior to cassette and very similar to vinyl
Not sure I agree with this at all. Anyone have specs to compare? I suspect tape has better dynamic range.
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I do believe in flexidisc, its quality is superior to cassette and very similar to vinyl
Not sure I agree with this at all. Anyone have specs to compare? I suspect tape has better dynamic range.
you can't (or shouldn't) put a whole album on a flexi. good for two short(er) songs only.
STUPID.
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Of course, remember the actual purpose of flexidisc back then..?
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the cost is comparable to vinyl, might as well do vinyl.
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Personally, I like them.
the cost is comparable to vinyl, might as well do vinyl.
Flexis are very comparable to vinyl, and lathe cuts are always going to be more, if a band wants to put down the money to do something other than vinyl, I think it's cool. They don't last forever, and a 25 year old Confuse flexi is going to sound like noise but for some bands I think the sound fits. All of the Signaler Fran Ovan releases from this year and last sound great on the format.
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well i think theyre stupid.
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this thread reminded of that canadaian lathe-cut record club....nothing ever happened with that huh?
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Flexidiscs are the fucking worst.
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I do believe in flexidisc, its quality is superior to cassette and very similar to vinyl
Not sure I agree with this at all. Anyone have specs to compare? I suspect tape has better dynamic range.
No specs, but I believe CS is correct about the CS. Do flexi discs still deteriorate rapidly in sound quality from playback? I know older ones have issues.
Of course, remember the actual purpose of flexidisc back then..?
To insert in magazines and bags of potato chips? When flexi promo inserts peaked, the majority of households had a turntable, and vinyl was *the* format.
I do not like the flexi dick. To my ears the sound quality is inferior, they are tedious to store/catalog, and they have an added risk of shipping damage from mishandling and careless packing. Last year I purchased a flexi--the USPS bent one side of the cardboard backing and envelope, causing a bend on a portion of the disc. I'll take dinged corners on outer record sleeves over ruined playback mediums.
The only thing more ridiculous than a flexidisc is a thread poll about flexidiscs.
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I do believe in flexidisc, its quality is superior to cassette and very similar to vinyl
Not sure I agree with this at all. Anyone have specs to compare? I suspect tape has better dynamic range.
No specs, but I believe CS is correct about the CS. Do flexi discs still deteriorate rapidly in sound quality from playback? I know older ones have issues.
Of course, remember the actual purpose of flexidisc back then..?
To insert in magazines and bags of potato chips? When flexi promo inserts peaked, the majority of households had a turntable, and vinyl was *the* format.
I do not like the flexi dick. To my ears the sound quality is inferior, they are tedious to store/catalog, and they have an added risk of shipping damage from mishandling and careless packing. Last year I purchased a flexi--the USPS bent one side of the cardboard backing and envelope, causing a bend on a portion of the disc. I'll take dinged corners on outer record sleeves over ruined playback mediums.
The only thing more ridiculous than a flexidisc is a thread poll about flexidiscs.
100% correct. The only thing that sounds shittier than a flexidisc is a cereal box record BUT at least you can eat the crap inside a fucking cereal box. As noted, flexis were created as a promotional tool, not just songs to shove into a shitty English alt music magazine, but as give-aways by gas/oil companies at service stations, slipped in the back of tourist booklets (the Sounds of Yellowstone, etc), used as cheap educational aids, for political campaign fundraising, etc. They were used because they were cheap to make - much cheaper than vinyl records - and very cheap to ship. Sound quality was the least concern. Don't get me wrong, I love flexi discs - I have a pretty decent size collection of them, but I buy them for novelty's sake not for sound quality. Any asshole claiming that they "sound as good as records" is talking out of his ass. And, as CS and the dude above noted, cassettes do sound better than flexidiscs.
Nowadays flexis are too expensive to justify making unless you are going the novelty route like Castle Face did with that flexidisc spiral bound book. Though I would never buy it, because $20+ for a novelty item is a rippoff to me - though I am sure given the cost of making it, the price is fair - it is a very cool idea - not original (I have a few flexi books - all of them field recordings of birds) - but still cool. So I can see putting out a flexi in a book or as something bigger, but to release one's record on a flexi rather than vinyl is fucking stupid. The only plus is that it is less mass for the landfill when the flexi glut happens.
I really wish I could ban people, posts like this would put "m" on the ash heap.
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I like them even less than CD's
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i think they're great i still have a flexidisc that came in a book around 20 years ago and it still plays pretty good, it hasn't even been kept in a sleeve just jammed in with all the other records. They are quite a lot cheaper to make than records too i think, about half the price for low runs when i checked.
noone claimed they sound as good as records. i reckon more people have record players than tape machines too... in the uk anyway.
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fuck the uk
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fuck the world.... the only continent that has it right is south america (where flexidiscs would melt so it is irrelevant.)
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tapes would melt too tho
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i'm doing a minidisc label.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/EdisonPhonograph.jpg)
2013?
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anyway this is the only flexidisc i have and it sounds fine.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TEXAS-BLUES-STEFAN-GROSSMAN-RARE-FLEXI-DISC-U-S-/260921314778
i don't see why anyone is getting angry about them.