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Awesome! ----- Original Message ----- From: "david goren" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Cassttes - Re: [ARSCLIST] One more sticky-shed data point - Richardson treated tape They did: https://storycorps.me/ On Jan 22, 2016, at 8:13 AM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I keep hoping someone, like Storycorps, will create a smartphone app for capturing oral histories. > The app would include a step-by-step about where to place the phone, and a little super-simple and > large-button recorder control. Maybe also a way to directly upload the oral history to Storycorps > or Archive.org or some other appropriate venue. I really think the emphasis should be audio-only, > because video makes a wide swath of people nervous and thus they clinch up on answering questions > or any other participation in the interview. The beauty of putting a phone on a table, hitting > record and talking is that it's super-unobtrusive, even less so than a 70s cassette recorder. The > goal would be a friendly app that is made for people with no technical experience, particularly > family members who want to get the old-timers voices and stories before they pass on. I think it > would be a very popular app. > > -- Tom Fine > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lou Judson" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 2:41 PM > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Cassttes - Re: [ARSCLIST] One more sticky-shed data point - Richardson > treated tape > > > Indeed it would! I was once hired to record oral histories of SF Port people before they passed > on. We had four couples around a table in the Ferry Building, responding to questions and > conversing. Each had a lavalier mic and we used a Dugan System auto mixer into Pro Tools. Two > sessions like that before they ran out of funding. ’Twas fun while it lasted and sounded darn > good! > > I had a few dozen cassettes of a famus psychologist to transfer from classes at a college back > East. I noticed that the last few words were repeated on the other side, and sure enough later on > they got the original reels, and I got to do it all again but better. Been there, done that! :-) > > Good move to make them more affordable - ethics trump (Ooo, hard to use that word any more!) > profits. > > It has amazed me how good a recording can be made with an iPhone laying on a table - they are so > thin, it is like a PZM, and can be enhanced for pretty good clarity! > > (I recommend Retro Recorder for this - been using it for meeting records and darn good for that!) > <http://mcdsp.com/2013/08/06/retro-recorder/> and they got the visual design just right: > <http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/review/retro_recorder_1.1.1> More than a toy!) > <L> > Lou Judson > Intuitive Audio > 415-883-2689 > > On Jan 21, 2016, at 11:14 AM, Richard L. Hess <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> On 1/20/2016 8:49 PM, Lou Judson wrote: >>> I wish people would hire engineers to record oral histories! >> >> Wouldn't that be Nirvana? >> >> I recall that there was one client who had a mix of reels and cassettes of oral histories. They >> started out with reels. Someone made cassette copies of the reels so the client wanted me to >> digitize the cassette copies, but she didn't want to pay the extra cost of digitizing from the >> reels (the reels needed baking). I dropped my price on the reels as I refused to do it from the >> cassettes when the reels were still transferrable. >> >> The reels were good--even the 1.88 in/s ones, though the odd 7.5 in/s one was spectacular. >> Anyway, I convinced myself that the reels were recorded by someone who knew what they were doing >> with a good external mic (like usually came with a Uher). >> >> So then they got to the cassettes...yup, $29.95 drugstore cassette recorders with built-in mics >> sitting just far enough off tables... >> >> Cheers, >> >> Richard