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Re: [Csnd] Old Analog Tape -> WAVs ?

Date2012-04-05 02:20
From"Partev Barr Sarkissian"
SubjectRe: [Csnd] Old Analog Tape -> WAVs ?
Ampex 456, if it's 1/2", it can can shed a little. Not as bad as some
others. Contact Eddie Ciletti of Mix Magazine's "Tech Files". He has
a whole thing about baking tapes, a chart for tape types and widths, 
and how much time to bake it for, along with some pre-prep stuff to
know. It's pretty good,...

www.tangible-technology.com/

... tell him I sent you. He knows his stuff and he's pretty cool.


Cheers,
-Partev


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--- PeterArmstrong@aya.yale.edu wrote:

From: PMA 
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Csnd] Old Analog Tape -> WAVs ?
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:04:28 -0400

Thank you Rich!  (And the first part I should have thought of myself.)
Pete

richard duckworth wrote:
> If you sit in on the session, you can give the engineer instructions.  S/he can
>then automate your decisions into the workstation and you can bring away
> the mix you desire. If the tape is shedding oxide, it'll need to be baked.  If it's
>  Ampex 456 from the '80's, it won't be shedding. Don't try baking it 
yourself.
>
> Rich Duckworth
> Lecturer in Music Technology
> Department of Music
> House 5
> Trinity College
> Dublin 2
> Ireland
>
>
> Tel 353 1 896 1500
>
>
> It's the most devastating moment in a young mans life, when he quite reasonably says to himself, "I shall never play The Dane!"
>
>
> ________________________________
>   From: PMA
> To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 March 2012, 18:54
> Subject: [Csnd] Old Analog Tape ->  WAVs ?
>
> Hi List.
>
> This is off possibly any Csound topic, so I forgive non-response in advance.
>
> I've unearthed here a tape, reel-to-reel analog audio, of a piano recital of
> mine from 1981 (works of Busoni, Stravinsky, Webern, Ross Lee Finney).
> I want to have it digitized -- as a WAV file per movement -- in order then
> to make MP3s for uploading (soon or eventually) to my page at IMSLP.
>
> But from painful experience, I don't trust just any audio engineer -- having
> of course well-preserved&  functioning analog equipment -- to refrain from
> overriding my musical decisions with his own (say, "turning up" a left-hand
> accompaniment whose volume I'd spent a zillion practice hours subduing).
>
> Any thoughts you may have on this -- what sort of specialist to search out,
> what source might best predict quality, etc. -- I'd much appreciate.
>
> Thanks,
> PMA
>
> P.S.  How brittle this 1/4-inch tape may be, I have no idea.  It is still
>          snugly wound, certainly, having been played back never once.
>
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