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RE: Recording noise.

Posted by ironbut (A) on January 28, 2014 at 12:43:41

In Reply to: Recording noise. posted by DRam on January 21, 2014 at 13:54:35:

It sounds like it's a combination of over emphasis of the highs from using the wrong tape with the bias and eq set on your machine and compression of using tape with less dynamic range and/or the machine design.
The freq emphasis results are pretty obvious to most folks but compression isn't.
Most folks think about how compression lowers the volume peaks but if you look at it another way, it brings the low level sound up which makes these lower levels sounds much more prominent.
With a lot of musical content, lowering the peaks by a couple of dB is nearly impossible to perceive. But raising the low level sounds by the same amount takes it from "easy to ignore" to "in your face".

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