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In Reply to: RE: Why to we still care about (and listen to) RTR posted by TGR on January 12, 2009 at 11:00:12
Actually it died about 1966 when 3 3/4 ips and Dolby appeared. Companies looked to Dolby to mask the noise and allow them to use less tape. Well IMHO it killed the R2R medium and ushered in the compact cassette. The fumble fingered out number the nimble fingered. I use it because my musical taste lies in the 50s and 60s. I like big bands or orchestras and there was just more of it back then. They also didn't use multi-tracking with single microphones that much and an orchestra performed as one (remember musicianship) into three well spaced mics. So you got a very accurate 3D sound source of musicians performing as one group. It was also less compressed and less processed (LESS IS MORE in an analog realm) because they didn't do that much dubbing or making protection masters. If you can find a good tape at 7.5 ips of the music you like then I think you're ahead. The record companies still have all these masters in their vault but chances are that if some young turk, rock trained engineer got hold of them to make a CD re-issue, he would not be able to restrain himself from processing the hell out of it and attenuate the dynamics. They would foam at the mouth if they heard a little tape hiss. Personally, I'm for NO PROCESSING! NO Dolby! If it was recorded without Dolby then for God's sake don't try to introduce Dolby now! Get back to the original master, if it's playable and the oxide hasn't fallen off. Restore old machines. If it was recorded on a Ampex 351 then restore an Ampex 351 for playback to re-master it. If it was recorded on a 3M then find a 3M and restore it. But they just don't want to go to that trouble. And none of this.... " well we need to give it the Nashville Sound or the Detroit mo town soul sound" with EQ out the wazoo! Ray Hughes
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