Yeah. My 5 c worth guesses:
- Because the Dolby A units are analogue, the kids think they are exotic.
- The units are black boxes, no possible adjustments exist, so they are
straightforward to use.
- Somebody started that and all others are copying the same thing.
Things like that happen in recording industry all the time. Equipment is
misused to
achieve a certain effect.
I have there two 361:s sitting in the shelf. I haven't had much use for
them lately.
All Dolby tapes that I have been digitizing, have for many years been
Dolby SR.
I might as well sell the units for vocal processing. :-)
Eero
Ted Kendall wrote
> Why shouldn't they? If it's creative processing of a vocal track then
> it's just as defensible as using a gate or a vocal stresser or a grunge
> box. Did not Dolby themselves market a modified SR encoder for just this
> purpose? In this context, the intended sound is the right sound.
>
> On 01/12/2018 20:51, Gary A. Galo wrote:
>> Why don't they use a tool intended for that purpose? There are dozens
>> if not hundreds of them available, and they're all adjustable instead
>> of just on-off. This is a complete misapplication of Dolby NR.
>>
>> Gary
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