Speaking about magntic tapes:
A few years ago I planned to make dummy head stereo recordings of common
sounds in Sweden, everything from an old type-writer (still used, rarely) t=
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a Ford 1962 V8 engine. I planned to make recordings of the sounds of
industries which soon will be gone, etc.
The idea was born when I once fantasized over "suppose I could hear
recordings of the daily life, made 200 years ago?"
Why not give future people such options? Hearing recordings, as "true to
life" as possible, just as "if you were there" in the middle of a 1999
Stockholm traffic junction! For example.
When I planned this, I made several calls to "sound people" who "ALL" made
the remark that "perhaps only 50 years from now - nobody can play a CD!"
"All" of them favoured the 1/4 inch magnetic tape, as they said: "Even 500
years from now, we (people) will be able to understand and manufacture a
machine which can replay such tapes."
So, folks - for an "everlasting" format, what would you recommend today?
Klas.
Telinga Microphones, Botarbo,
S-748 96 Tobo, Sweden.
Phone & fax int + 295 310 01
email:
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