This site covers a broad variety of releases from that era.
Bootleg vinyl sound quality.
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.
The quality is pretty good and sometimes it gets really quiet and then really loud.
Information on the difference in sound quality between the various vinyl bootlegs was even harder to find.
As we learned the same record from the very same stamper could sound quite different depending which pressing you were listening to.
During the 1970s an underground recording industry emerged.
Of course with copyright laws not applying to such releases great white wonder soon became copied by other bootleg manufacturers and the album has since appeared in a multitude of configurations on black vinyl and colored vinyl and with and without properly printed covers.
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.
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.
The two bootlegs i bought recently were live shows.
Flac can handle up to 192k 24bit.
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.