2009/11/18 John Sessoms <[email protected]>: > That was what I was saying about early CD issues being just a straight > analog to digital conversion of the tape masters. The tapes were originally > mixed so they'd sound good on vinyl, but the reproduction characteristics of > the CD are different.
The RIAA equalization is not applied to the master recording so eq is not a problem, the master recordings being tape however do degrade with time. The ferrous binders often fail or become sticky so the the tape flutters, the remnant magnetism becomes diminished so the noise floor rises and dynamics become a little compressed. Plus old tapes often suffer "print-through" which is an echo effect created due to tape layers imposing their magnetic record on each other. It's absolutely no surprise that old tapes sound worse years after they were recorded. > If you wanted to, you could add those same kind of "warm" vinyl inaccuracies > to digital recordings so they'd be present in playback. That's true, the same as adding film noise to a digital photograph. The state of the art digital recording systems are so accurate a new generation of microphones had to be developed in order to take limited advantage of the new capabilities. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
