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In Reply to: RE: About digital recording of analogue sources posted by geoffkait on December 18, 2014 at 06:50:00:
Agree with your comment about cassettes. Good ones can not be transferred to 44/16 digital without loss of quality. The differences are obvious. Less so at 176/24. Results are similar for 7.5 IPS tape.
I did fair comparisons: digitize cassette at 176/24, convert via software to 44/16, convert back to 176/24 and compare the two 176/24's with each other and with the analog original (Nak CR 7. Recordings were low speed cassette copies of reel to reel master tapes.) I used iZotope SRC for the conversions and tried many different settings to see if I could get tonal balance, imaging and lack of digital glare. There were settings that got close on 2 out 3 of these, but it was like squeezing a big balloon into a small suitcase. No go.
Bad cassettes that were multiple generations in the cassette format, high speed dubbed, stored under bad conditions or played many times on cheap, dirty or magnetized equipment were another story.
Tony Lauck
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Follow Ups
- RE: About digital recording of analogue sources - Tony Lauck 12/19/1413:50:34 12/19/14 (3)
- " Good ones can not be transferred to 44/16 digital without loss of quality. " - beppe61 01:48:46 12/20/14 (2)
- RE: " Good ones can not be transferred to 44/16 digital without loss of quality. " - Tony Lauck 07:23:16 12/20/14 (1)
- RE: " Good ones can not be transferred to 44/16 digital without loss of quality. " - beppe61 04:45:38 12/21/14 (0)
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