Yes, it is possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl because I just did it!


Sam here again and in my never ending quest to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl I discovered something.

(1) Vintage vinyl before the digital age has an indescribable sound to my ears a certain stereo-ness ?

(2) New remastered vinyl does not have that stereo-ness that I hear on vintage vinyl?

(3) Digital audio does not have that stereo-ness that I hear on vintage vinyl?

That’s not to say I don’t hear stereo sound from digital audio and remastered vinyl, however I don’t feel the sound like with vintage vinyl ?

That is until I stumbled onto this? I started using a software called isotope rx5 advanced audio editor. This software contains a filter setting called adaptive azimuth alignment now I’m not sure what it does however when I apply the Filter to the digital audio that stereo-ness that I hear with vintage vinyl is present and I now feel the music. (ps) I just discovered that azimuth is used on turntables and tape decks so maybe that's why

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before. http://u.pc.cd/0pb

after. http://u.pc.cd/umFctalK
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Sam here and I'm not sure if they make a plugin that does that and I don't have the knowledge to make one myself? If I could somehow run the audio through a Phono cartridge as an output using a dummy blank record to reproduce tracking except the digital signal would replace the music from the vinyl grooves good call I'll get started.
Now if you can make your digital azimuth filter settings mimic cartridge tracking a record behavior by changing up and down left and right back and forth in a sort of quasi regular yet randomly varying way then it would be almost like the azimuth of a vintage turntable. 

Also have you tried emulating tracking angle by having L/R phase shift gradually across a track? Or are you trying to reproduce the sound of a vintage linear tracking arm?