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Topic: Analog resurgence includes things you might not expect
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted June 03, 2016 11:55 AM
Oh wow, the nearly indestructable 8 tracks ... how i rwemember them, especially how they would fade out to switch to the next track and then fade in again, on a song! (Though the producers of the 8 track would do thier best to make sure that a favored song was not cut in two).
Cassettes, near thier zenith, actually had pretty good sound, especially if you recorded from a CD source on an either metal tape or Chrome tape! I still have that expensive (at the time) tape deck with Dolby B and C recording technology, and when you played them back on a nice little dolby casette deck with headphones, it sounded great ... a good deal better than most of the cassettes that were put out by the record labels, ironically.
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Claus Harding
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1149
From: Washington DC
Registered: Oct 2006
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posted June 03, 2016 03:06 PM
DBXII noise reduction units helped the cassette sound respectable, as long as you encoded and decoded appropriately. The issue with DBXII was that if the unit mistook, say, hiss from a radio broadcast for tape noise, any quiet moments (in classical music and such) would be sucked right down to silence as if you had turned the radio off in-between. For "steady-state" volume material, such as rock music, it worked very well.
Dolby-S and metal tape was the other way to sonic bliss, but few decks were made with "S" and metal tapes were expensive.
It is admirable what could be squeezed out of those small tracks, but if I want a reality check, all I have to do is lace up my 2-track reel-to-reel and roll something at 15 or 30 IPS, and one is quickly reminded about how you can't fool physics: more is more, in this regard :-)
Still, I have my now 30-40-yr old cassettes and a Tascam deck to play them on; I won't get rid of them.
Claus.
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"Why are there shots of deserts in a scene that's supposed to take place in Belgium during the winter?" (Review of 'Battle of the Bulge'.)
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