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Re: Re: MD v. DAT

Subject: Re: Re: MD v. DAT
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:24:29 -0700
Rob Danielson, you wrote,

>I do believe this could be true from side by side experiences with MD
>and DAT using same mics, pres.

But different A/D converters, yes?

>For ambient recordings or those of a
>number of sound sources at a distance (not one, foregrounded call)
>there seems to be some acoustic detail that's lost with MD/ATRAC
>scheme. For example, long reverb tails that aren't there on the MD
>recording. When I try to coax more out of the low level MD recordings
>with careful eq, its evident there's more garbage than on the DAT.

I would suspect converter differences for symptoms like this. Lower
level stuff is easier for ATRAC, harder for converters.

-Dan


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