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>Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] NOA Audio >Received: 02.02.2005 23:38 Uhr >From: Richard L. Hess, [log in to unmask] >Reply-To: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List, [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] > >That is good to hear. I have been wanting to evaluate their software but >haven't found the right project. I'm not sure it would help my free lance >transfer work, but I would be very interested in researching it more for an >audio archive. > >They seem to have thought out many of the challenges of transfers, and the >quality control aspects are very interesting. > >Joachim, do you find the quality control/quality assurance aspects of the >"looking for audio defects" in the program better in NOA than Cube-Tech? Cute-Tech generates a plethora of differenct XML files that should assure quality control but only put redundant data with no meaning into db files. To my experience a "click" pattern recognition algorhythmn could not be identified if it had its source in a malfuncitinal tape recording or in a voice pattern. Cube-Tec people always said that this is "setting" problem. To me all the time it looked more a as "poor algorhythmn issue". The algothrythms are still so bad. And then this toy software oscilloscope in the UI that uses 85 percent of processor power with no use at all - because you still need real oscilloscopes and stereo meters. In NAO systems you will have optical and colored patterns to judge and evaluate your source and digitlization effort. >That feature in itself is a very interesting one. I believe that NOA is set >up so one operator can ingest three sources at once. The newer Cube-Tec systems (at phenomenal high price) pretend also to be able to have three or four simultanous recording sources. I would not dare to even test it. >Note that the interfaces to hardware are somewhat limited. I think the >Studer A820, A816, and A807 are supported. I'm not sure about the A812 or >A810. This is partially the case because it reads European coded leader >tape (there are apparently standards for Dolby encoded tape, etc., track >configuration, etc) What makes the NAO system so good for us here in Europe is the fact that you still can uses Telefunken 15A tape recorders (still widely in use here). NAO seems to be very flexible to adopt to different sources if needed. Contact them (Christoph Kummer) if have specific questions. > >Richard > > >Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] >Vignettes >Media web: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/ >Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX bye Joachim Polzer www.polzer.org