What would you do, if I sang out of tune?

I've harped on this before, and it has finally come to a head -- my Crossley isn't going to cut it. Two recent events have convinced me of this.

1.) A thread over at RecordCollectorsGuild.org talks about the Crossley just eating vinyl and

2.) The sound quality I'm getting.

I was listening to a .wav of Dunrobins Gone by Bravebelt after I had done the requisite cleaning of the track in Audition (i.e. removing 60 cycle hum, removing the sound of the stylus on the record, and removing any clicks, pops and hiss) and the track sounded lifeless. The 12 string guitar had no bottom end and no top end. In fact, it sounded little more than mid-range mush, and I use mush in the most literal sense of the word. The guitars sounded soft and doughy, with no punch and no real presence.

I do have another turntable in the house, a Kenwood P-100. This is an upgrade, as the platter (that is the spinning bit the record er, spins on) is not plastic as in the Crossley, but rather metal. I plan on giving it a bit of a try this week now that I know how to overcome the limitations I was experiencing before. Hopefully, everything will work out rather peachy, and I can mostly retire the Crossley and save you all from hearing me go on and on about it.

The latest additions to the archive, gleaned over the past several months:

Feist - Let it Die
Five Man Electrical Band - Coming of Age
Goddo - Pretty Bad Boys
Guess Who, The - Canned Wheat
Helix - Walkin' the Razor's Edge
Mother Truckers Yellow Duck - Starting a new day.
Northern Pikes, The - Big Blue Sky
Rush - Moving Pictures
S.C.U.M. - Born too Soon...
Tyson, Ian and Sylvia - Ian & Sylvia
Ugly Ducklings, The - Off The Wall
Various Artists- The History of Vancouver Rock and Roll vols 1 & 2. (An excellent compendium of Greater Vancouver rock and roll including the likes of Little Daddy and the Bachelors, The Shockers and The Canadian V.I.P.S)
Wives, The - Cigarettes (the band formerly, and futurely known as The Battered Wives)