Re: How Does 20th Century Radio Upscale their OTR Shows?

[Matthew Bullis]

In Sound Forge which I use, the stereoize effect is called psuedo stereo, 
because it spreads the sound out and puts some milliseconds delay between the 
left and right channels.
Matthew

RE: How Does 20th Century Radio Upscale their OTR Shows?

[Peter Scanlon]

If the effect sounds good why do anything to fix it.

 

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Subject: Re: How Does 20th Century Radio Upscale their OTR Shows?

Sounds well beyond my brain capacity.

I just like hearing how Richard Diamond sounds so different when the files
are encoded this way. Does destroy the nostalgia feel though.

What program is used to create such an effect. Just would like to play with
a few files to see how different the main characters sound in stereo.

At 10:46 PM 5/15/2017, you wrote:
>Although the effect sounds great initially, it's really not good to do 
>this to files. Most I've heard like this actually introduce a fraction 
>of a second delay between channels to achieve this effect.
>If you get a file like this and want to fix it, you can just pan one 
>channel to the center while muting the other. I've heard the term 
>stereoize to describe what you're hearing, and I try to fix this 
>whenever I come across a file like this. If you simply convert one of 
>these files to mono without muting one of the channels, then the file 
>has a weird sound quality to it because of the channel delay being 
>pressed into one channel.
>Matthew
>
>
>On May 15, 2017, at 5:55 PM, Kenny <richardkenny...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>I'm one who enjoys listening to OTR shows on my Victor Reader Stream
>2 on a daily basis.
>
>I'm noticing a few of the stations (20th Century Radio for instance) 
>seem to be broadcasting their stream in stereo. Very odd for I know 
>that most, if not all OTR shows were recorded in momo.
>
>How are they able to get low quality momo files to sound this good?
>
>Would love to know their secret for I have a few mystery Old Time Radio 
>shows I'd love to hear in stereo (Lights Out and Inner Sanctum in 
>particular.)
>
>Any ideas?

Re: How Does 20th Century Radio Upscale their OTR Shows?

[Kenny]

Sounds well beyond my brain capacity.

I just like hearing how Richard Diamond sounds so different when the 
files are encoded this way. Does destroy the nostalgia feel though.


What program is used to create such an effect. Just would like to 
play with a few files to see how different the main characters sound in stereo.


At 10:46 PM 5/15/2017, you wrote:
Although the effect sounds great initially, it's really not good to 
do this to files. Most I've heard like this actually introduce a 
fraction of a second delay between channels to achieve this effect. 
If you get a file like this and want to fix it, you can just pan one 
channel to the center while muting the other. I've heard the term 
stereoize to describe what you're hearing, and I try to fix this 
whenever I come across a file like this. If you simply convert one 
of these files to mono without muting one of the channels, then the 
file has a weird sound quality to it because of the channel delay 
being pressed into one channel.

Matthew


On May 15, 2017, at 5:55 PM, Kenny  wrote:

Hello,

I'm one who enjoys listening to OTR shows on my Victor Reader Stream 
2 on a daily basis.


I'm noticing a few of the stations (20th Century Radio for instance) 
seem to be broadcasting their stream in stereo. Very odd for I know 
that most, if not all OTR shows were recorded in momo.


How are they able to get low quality momo files to sound this good?

Would love to know their secret for I have a few mystery Old Time 
Radio shows I'd love to hear in stereo (Lights Out and Inner Sanctum 
in particular.)


Any ideas?

Re: How Does 20th Century Radio Upscale their OTR Shows?

[Matthew Bullis]

Although the effect sounds great initially, it's really not good to do this to 
files. Most I've heard like this actually introduce a fraction of a second 
delay between channels to achieve this effect. If you get a file like this and 
want to fix it, you can just pan one channel to the center while muting the 
other. I've heard the term stereoize to describe what you're hearing, and I try 
to fix this whenever I come across a file like this. If you simply convert one 
of these files to mono without muting one of the channels, then the file has a 
weird sound quality to it because of the channel delay being pressed into one 
channel.
Matthew


On May 15, 2017, at 5:55 PM, Kenny  wrote:

Hello,

I'm one who enjoys listening to OTR shows on my Victor Reader Stream 2 on a 
daily basis.

I'm noticing a few of the stations (20th Century Radio for instance) seem to be 
broadcasting their stream in stereo. Very odd for I know that most, if not all 
OTR shows were recorded in momo.

How are they able to get low quality momo files to sound this good?

Would love to know their secret for I have a few mystery Old Time Radio shows 
I'd love to hear in stereo (Lights Out and Inner Sanctum in particular.)

Any ideas?