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March 14, 2006

Analog "Warming up" of sound & the use of obsolete formats in contemporary recordings

Filed under: reels, cassettes, archival practices, recording/mastering, digital — Richard L. Hess @ 11:27 pm

I received a phone call today from someone who wanted my opinion on a Tascam 238 8-track cassette recorder for recording his music.

This was like the person who wanted to know about the DCC recorder for the same purpose yesterday.

People keep hearing that “analog sounds great” or that this or that format “sounds great” and they want to buy in. (more…)

Transfer level settings

Filed under: archival practices, levels — Richard L. Hess @ 1:29 pm

Audio levels (and their cousin loudness) has been an ongoing area of confusion and annoyances from the 1930s on. Adding digital to the mix has done little to simplify the situation.

Here we discuss some of the background and the relationship between the VU Meter, the Peak Programme Meter, and digital meters reference to 0 dBFS (Full Scale). (more…)



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