QRD, Keyboard, Lost Kisses, Vinyl

I spent most of the day working on proofing some more label series interviews.  There’s around 25 this time out & I really need to start getting more up to date on things.  I also have 16 comic interviews to proof so far & a couple more guitarist ones.  It would make a lot more sense how much time I’ve been putting into QRD if it generated more than $10 a month of income.  One day hopefully.

I finally tried to get my keyboard working that I got the new power cable for.  When I powered it up the disc drive for loading sounds in made a noise like a vacuum cleaner.  So I think it’s broken.  But maybe I’ll one day try to open it up & fix it.

So there’s this digital projector that I’m thinking about getting from Bed Bath & Beyond & this friend of mine tells me his sister works there & can get me a discount.  So today he calls me & tells me his sister actually works at Bath & Body Works so the things he can get me a discount on are soap & candles.  Oh well.

So I’m working on the third Lost Kisses story arc & I think I’m going to start the numbering with issue #21 even though issue #12 of the second story arc is coming out.  I feel like it’s confusing in the short term, but it’ll make more sense to my grand children (assuming Andrew doesn’t act too fast on that & I get #13-#20 done before the content is age appropriate).

So every couple of months I get asked by a fan or a band I work with on Silber about releasing vinyl.  I probably should add this to the FAQ page & I suppose I eventually will, but here are the reasons Silber doesn’t get involved in vinyl:
1) It is expensive to manufacture at high quality.
2) The process of transferring sound from a digital media (e.g. a CDR of audio) to vinyl is prone to distortion & sounds with excessive low-end (such as many sound experiments have) have to be EQ’d out to make a record not skip & certain extreme stereo effects (generally in the low end) also have to be lessened to keep a record from skipping.
3) They are more expensive to ship.
4) They are more prone to damage when shipping.  In my experience as a consumer (& vendor) the damaged CD to the point of non-playability or other need of replacement is around 1 in 1000 while with vinyl the number is closer to 1 in 25.
5) If something is recorded digitally & mastered digitally, in what way is putting it on vinyl “preserving the sound”?
6) It is more prone to damage while in storage (both to the owner (which I suppose is a good thing, because I could sell them another copy when it’s damaged?) & in my basement).
7) I’d need to buy different shipping material than I use for compact discs.
8) I can’t listen to it in my car.
9) I can’t listen to it on my DVD player.
10) It is less convenient for many reviewers & radio stations.
11) If a release can’t sell the 300 campact discs it needs to to break even on the first pressing, how can it sell the 400 vinyl records it would need to?
Okay, done with that rant.