{"id":3144,"date":"2011-05-26T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2011-05-22T09:30:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T13:30:49","slug":"music-in-the-analog-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/music-in-the-analog-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Music In the Analog Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PoIoewwgaow?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PoIoewwgaow?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Back in my college days (Oh,I am SO dating myself here), turntables, amplifiers, tone arms, and stylus cartridges were all the rage.\u00a0 These audio-phonic devices gave you music!<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t unusual to see a college student sitting in his dormitory room or fraternity house pouring through\u00a0 milk crates filled with\u00a0 33 1\/3 vinyl albums.<\/p>\n<p>It was a far cry from i-pods, MP3s, and digital music.\u00a0 Taking your music collection to college with you involved hauling around a lot of equipment, not to mention all the stacks of wax. (Now you understand why cars were so much larger back then!)<\/p>\n<p>I discovered this YouTube channel where you can take a step backward and <strong>see<\/strong> how music was played on turntables and tape decks.<\/p>\n<p>The channel&#8217;s creator also uses a very clever visual device in presenting the album notes and other technical data.\u00a0 A real treat and very creative.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who are old enough to remember this &#8220;technology,&#8221; it&#8217;ll be a nice walk down memory lane. For those who&#8217;ve never seen this before, you just might be surprised at how organic and &#8220;hands on&#8221; it is.\u00a0 Handling a large album and placing it on a turntable platter really connected you to the music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in my college days (Oh,I am SO dating myself here), turntables, amplifiers, tone arms, and stylus cartridges were all the rage.\u00a0 These audio-phonic devices gave you music! It wasn&#8217;t unusual to see a college student sitting in his dormitory room or fraternity house pouring through\u00a0 milk crates filled with\u00a0 33 1\/3 vinyl albums. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[214,189,213,135],"class_list":["post-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-audio","tag-music","tag-turntables","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions\/3150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}