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Date:	Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:39:34 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Audio recording / editing programs?

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Peter Skye wrote:

> We used some pretty advanced electronics in the studios when we had to
> clean up old records for the shows. We used de-clickers, de-essers,
> noise gates, eq-expansion, differential attack gates and probably other
> stuff I've forgotten about. I built some of the boxes we used. But in
> most cases the song sounded *better* when it hadn't been processed
> because there's not much difference between the attack of an electric
> guitar or close-mic'd piano and the attack of a click or pop, and the
> equipment made everything sound "soft" while it was taking out the
> sounds we didn't want. If you play your newly-transferred tunes for a
> while and still want them processed you can always do the processing
> later.

Uh-huh, the baby along with the bathwater syndrome. I recall that being the
audiophile consensus, back when Carver and others were building various
super-techno processor boxes. Maybe one or another of these things was smart
enough to distinguish between an objectionable type of noise and what might
actually be musical information, but if so it never came to my attention.

I'll tell you something else: though there has been a great deal of progress
made with the digital music chain (which by now rules the musical universe),
I still think that there is plenty of analog music (on LPs, maybe on
reel-to-reel) that -- if played back on great equipment -- *still* sounds
much better musically than almost any cd, *even with* some noise being
present on the former. Some important information and true-to-life
subtleties get lost when you sample, go over to those 1s & 0s, and take out
all the noise imperfections !

Jordan

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