A mastering master like George Horn at Fantasy Studios can maximize the
advantages of each specific medium.
To be truly useful to a DJ, a piece of vinyl needs fat tracks. Literally.
Low frequencies (common to most dance music, and wholly familiar to us
all) need wide grooves for best sound. I have some great K-TEL
compilations that have 20+ tracks on two sides of a single LP, but the
songs are too low level and weak dynamically. 12" singles sound better
than LPs because the grooves are better spaced. Notice how many hip hop
artists have double albums. It's not necessarily because they have more
songs (though many have more minutes clocked because the CD format allows
it), but for wider grooves - typically 3 to 4 songs per side.
The sampler CD could be on vinyl, but it could also potentially cost more
than the CD format. For great vinyl sound, I would hope it would be
limited to app. 12 to 15 minutes per side. You can fit a lot of time on a
standard red book audio CD (anyone want to discuss CD-plus (audio + data)
formats?). So while you could pack a CD, you would have a harder time
doing it justice on vinyl.
Gerry Villareal
Massive Brings
http://www.massive.com/