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| 2368.1 | Nak Playbak? | QUIVER::PICKETT | David - $ cat > | cc | Mon Jun 11 1990 23:21 | 8 |
| Karl,
Are you playing back on the Nak too? I've heard all sorts of
horror stories (mostly from the Aluminum-Eared AudioPILES) about Naks
making tapes that sounded great on other Naks, but sound bad on other
decks. I have not verified this firsthand.
dp
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| 2368.2 | | MILKWY::JANZEN | Tom 228-5421 FXO/28 | Tue Jun 12 1990 09:50 | 4 |
| A strong bass can saturate a tape but sound quiet because the ear
doesn't hear well down there. Dolby boosts highs in encoding so that
compressing the highs on playback also compresses most tape hiss.
Tom
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| 2368.3 | | AQUA::ROST | I'll do anything for money | Tue Jun 12 1990 10:28 | 7 |
| Like Tom said....it's possible you saturated the tape with your bass
line...or maybe just the fact that it is fast is causing the Dolby to
mistrack, after all, it is an analog processing system and there must
be some lag in response? I've heard this phenomenon ocassionally with
busy drum parts.
Brian
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| 2368.4 | Brief diversion | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | This is your brain on Unix | Tue Jun 12 1990 10:46 | 3 |
| BTW, I read that Dolby will be coming out with a new NR system called
Dolby S pretty soon. It was briefly mentioned in this months Consumer
Reports.
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| 2368.5 | | STROKR::DEHAHN | | Tue Jun 12 1990 11:08 | 11 |
|
It definitely sounds like your overloading the tape with bottom. Is
your bass line compressed? Have you tried re-recording without Dolby?
Is it metal tape?
Dolby S is the poor man's version of Dolby SR, a pro system that rivals
digital in S/N and has the analog sound. It's been around for about 2
years. Very popular right now.
CdH
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| 2368.6 | | SALSA::MOELLER | TUO:112�F, but it's a DRY heat | Tue Jun 12 1990 14:32 | 28 |
| <<< Note 2368.5 by STROKR::DEHAHN >>>
> It definitely sounds like your overloading the tape with bottom. Is
> your bass line compressed?
Nah. I just set the arpeggiator going on the EMAX and then
disconnected it MIDIwise from the keyboard - so I was improvising
electric piano (LOVE the chorused Kurzweil Rhodes, BTW) and strings
over the repeating bass line. The bass wasn't THAT loud compared to
the other program material, and the peak-reading VU meters on the
NAK weren't close to saturation.
>Have you tried re-recording without Dolby?
Well, I tried, but couldn't get the same arpeggiated bass line going on
the EMAX.
> Is it metal tape?
TDK SA90.
I don't believe this is linked to the mythical 'NAK tapes only play
well on other NAKs' issue.
thanks for the thoughts. If I do something with this piece I'll dub it
to 8track without Dolby decoding, whilst running it thru a stereo
10band EQ to drop the high end...
karl
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| 2368.7 | meter no good at lo freq | MILKWY::JANZEN | Tom 228-5421 FXO/28 | Tue Jun 12 1990 15:21 | 3 |
| peak reading meters are not calibrated for low r extremely high
frequencies.
TOm
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| 2368.8 | ever heard of 'too hot' a signal? | HUNEY::MACHIN | | Wed Jun 13 1990 05:27 | 5 |
| ..and Dolby was never designed to operate at 112 degrees.
Suggest you lower the ambient temperature in Arizona and try again.
Richard.
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