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RE: Music Audible on Run-In Groove?

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In Reply to: RE: Music Audible on Run-In Groove? posted by dcriner on May 07, 2008 at 16:07:17

It's one of those two. ...or both. Often, digitally mastered records don't have this artifact.

If the mastering engineers knew what they were doing, they'd splice in plastic leader tape right up until the first song started, and in between songs.

Storing tape in "tails out" position results in post-echo, but it's sure better than pre-echo. Print through also depends on and quality and thickness of the tape.

As an aspiring audio engineer (getting my degree), I'm glad we don't have to work with tape. Er... working with tape is a choice, not a requirement. Some bands still like the induced distortion, and will do their entire project on tape, while other bands will capture in digital, edit everything in Pro Tools, then run it out to tape and re-digitize it somewhere in the process. I've got an old Teac 3340S (minus a power cord and reel of tape) for this very purpose.

Oftentimes, if you listen really closely in a soft passage that has a loud passage right after it, you can hear the pre-echo.

Cassettes are also prone to this type of stuff, but nobody uses them any more :)

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