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RE: Recording noise.

Posted by Inmate51 on January 28, 2014 at 15:54:20

In Reply to: RE: Recording noise. posted by ironbut on January 28, 2014 at 12:43:41:

Hmmm...

One of the "virtues" of analog tape which recording engineers have taken advantage of "since forever" is the "soft clipping" - compression, as you put it - when driven into saturation. I'm not aware of any widespread problems with people turning up the playback volume as a result and therefore exposing pops and clicks more. As you correctly said, the compression of the peaks goes relatively unnoticed, so it's unlikely that a person would attempt to compensate by boosting the overall playback level.

I would lean more toward a machine/tape mismatch.

:)

Edits: 01/28/14

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