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In Reply to: RE: Another "Science-tologist." He focuses on steady-state frequencies and disregards transients posted by John Marks on October 07, 2015 at 14:38:04
There are definitely poor recordings that sound better after some of their "information" has been stripped. One way of doing this is to encode them into MP3 or another lossless format. Another way is to use psychoacoustic noise reduction software, such as that capable of removing tape hiss and related defects from music without changing the tonality of notes. (Example: iZotope RX noise reduction.)
There are tradeoffs involved. Some aspects of the recording are improved at the expense of other aspects. These conflicting tradeoffs do not exist if one starts with a good recording.
There are some really bad recordings that sound even better if they are simply switched off.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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"There are some really bad recordings that sound even better if they are simply switched off."For me that's pretty much anything with Neil Young in it, well recorded or not. The guy's whiny voice just grates on me.
On the other hand, I've many a terrible recording that I couldn't live without, but I'm a sucker for old time "big band" music. Tommy Dorsey, Cab Calloway, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Satchmo, the Andrews Sisters, and the rest of their ilk all have a welcome in my listening room.
To each their own, I guess!
JE
Edit: added a sample of the kind of music I'm talking about.
je
Edits: 10/07/15
Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Pete Fountain are favorites. Andrews Sisters also.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
You're welcome!
For all of the limitations of Redbook, I sure wish it and decent microphones had been available 100 years ago.
JE
Looked like one of the mic's on the video might have been an RCA 44-BX ribbon microphone. Not a bad microphone for its day and probably capable of better sound that what was on the video. Do you know the date of the performance in the video?
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
"Do you know the date of the performance in the video?"
Sorry, no.
Going by the fashions they are wearing I'd say late '40s.
JE
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