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.

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
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> Tel 353 1 896 1500
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> It's the most devastating moment in a young mans life, when he quite reasonably says to himself, "I shall never play The Dane!"
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>   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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