[jcollins]

I hope we're ALL not discontinued like Audio Tape....my old band's trip to the recording studio is still on 7.5" reels our ex-sound guy keeps for his Tandberg deck....which he says is ailing....and can't find anyone to fix it!!

There's nothing richer than audio tape; I hope Quantegy can pull it together.

How would "Sweet Home Alabama" have sounded digitally? Not quite as good.

> Jim
Southeast B'ham, Y'all.

 

[KenKiesow]

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Originally Posted by markl It's funny, there are mastering engineers out there who *destroy* the work they do by adding modern no-noise technology to remove the tape hiss from old recordings. In doing so, they remove much more than just tape hiss, they remove the air and breath of life in these recordings, people in the know, HATE no-noising... As Neil Young once said (paraphrasing), "all the magic takes place in the tape hiss..."

Ironic isn't it? I've spent plenty of time pulling music from tapes I recorded 20 years ago on good quality decks (Nakamichi, mostly), and fooling with noise reduction in Sound Forge. Most of it I've yet to commit to CD, because I'm not happy with the result. I'm reduced to eliminating hiss between tracks and leaving the rest alone..

 

[Publius]

I saw a portable record player at the Austin Record Convention last year. A lot of Japanese collectors are known to frequent it and I guess that could be a really good investment for that purpose.