I'm working on an ARSC presentation that discusses, among other things,
why, during the acoustic era, Victor kept recording the same selection and
performer over again at an interval of perhaps 5 years, usually issuing the
same catalog number even though the recording itself replaced an earlier
one, this considerable corporate investment being made with no idea that
electrical recording would make later listeners mostly ear-blind to what at
the time was considered sufficient improvement to warrant these
replacements.
The ability to capture some degree of ambience in a recording is one of
these improvements. Apparently, it's' something we can hear but cannot
measure
It's useful to remember that most of the instruments used today for
measuring audio attributes were not available to engineers at that time.
Rather, they seem to be a product of the need for them during the
improvement of telephone technology and were thus available to Western
Electric as they developed electrical recording from 1920-1921 on.
Steve
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iZotope's RX4 has something called "deReverb", although I have not tried it.
https://rxcookbook.izotope.com/reducing-reverb-rx-de-reverb-module
Marcos Sueiro Bal
Senior Archivist, New York Public Radio
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Ambience of the room.
Steve
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Are you meaning signal to noise? Or the ambience of the room it was recorded
in?
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Lou Judson
Intuitive Audio
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On Oct 24, 2016, at 10:27 AM, Steven Smolian <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I don't know of any but want to be sure that this attribute falls into
> audio's "unmeasurables."
>
> Stereo creates so many ways of blurring sonic information that a
> channel comparative tool might be possible but unreliable- different
> ways of isolating instruments, artificial reverb, etc. But mono? I'm
> thinking particularly of acoustically recorded 78s.
>
> Steve
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