Hi Rod:
Did you have something to do with B-C? I wonder because you seem determined to advocate for them.
Full disclosure, please.
For what it's worth, I don't think anyone's grouping B-C with the likes of Ampex or Bel Canto.
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roderic G Stephens" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Tape Project playback.
Oh yes, Lou, I forgot to mention the Barclay/Crocker use of Dolby to minimize that tape hiss.
Rod
--- On Fri, 9/24/10, Lou Judson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Lou Judson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Tape Project playback.
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010, 5:39 AM
Great measures were taken to squash and manipulate audio to fit Lp physics, they call it
Mastering; - no medium is perfect!
Tape arguably might have been more "pure" in that bass compression and radical EQ pre and post was
not neccessary. But the hiss was the killer. And the narrow tracls on "four track" consumer tape...
<L>
On Sep 23, 2010, at 9:42 PM, Roderic G Stephens wrote:
The LP surfaces of RCA and others various record companies tended to vary over the years. Also, even
if the LP tape masters were closer to the original, they also went through multigenerational
processes to come up with the final stamping masters which could wear in the process to produce less
and less perfect products. I guess direct to disk was the best of all of them.
Rod
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