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From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Shai Drori
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 9:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] recording "cleanup" plugins and 192/24
That's how I do it.
Shai
בתאריך 10/09/14 1:34 PM, ציטוט Andrew Dapuzzo:
> While I understand the importance of capturing output "above 20kHz"
> with the aforementioned tools, are there any tools available to help
> with azimuth adjustments? Older recordings, especially those made in
> the field with machines that have been "banged up", may be recorded
> with azimuth that is slightly off. Therefore, the higher frequencies
> may be lost or diminished if playback is not adjusted to the exact
> azimuth of the original recording. Is the only tool available our
> ears listening as we manually adjust the azimuth?
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 6:18 PM, John K. Chester <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> At 04:49 PM 8/29/2014, Tom Fine wrote:
>>
>>> John, is there a modification for to remove those noises? Do 3rd
>>> party electronics also carry those noises or are they something with
>>> the power rails under the transport? Sorry if these are ignorant
>>> questions, I'm not that familiar with the innards of ATR's.
>>>
>> I suspect this is neither the list nor the proper subject heading for
>> discussing such a highly technical issue, but here's a brief answer:
>>
>> I have never tried to clean up an ATR with stock electronics,
>> although I have a good idea of where to start. I have no data on 3rd
>> party electronics other than Plangent's. When I got the Plangent
>> electronics to be clean enough for our purposes, I stopped worrying about the problem.
>> Plangent does use a preamp in the headblock with a cable running
>> directly to our box, which helps keep things clean.
>>
>> I do find it a bit odd that folks doing 192k transfers often don't
>> seem to worry about how much signal gets from the tape to the tape
>> machine output above 20 kHz, and how much noise in that region comes
>> from the machine rather than the tape. There are useful signals up
>> there, and we know that if the transfer captures them they can later
>> be used to improve the quality of the audio below 20 kHz that we can actually hear.
>>
>> -- John Chester
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John K. Chester"
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>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 4:33 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] recording "cleanup" plugins and 192/24
>>>
>>>
>>> At 05:06 PM 8/29/2014, Shai Drori wrote:
>>>>> So if I turn the display off the 28.8 kHz goes away?
>>>>>
>>>> No, that noise on an ATR is actually coming from the reel motor
>>>> drivers. The display generates other noise which starts somewhere
>>>> in the mid-50's of kHz and has lots of harmonics.
>>>>
>>>> Turning off the display removes a lot of the noise spikes in the
>>>> audio output but not all of them.
>>>>
>>>> -- John Chester
>>>>
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Shai Drori
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