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Re: Cassette Recording Anyone?

Subject: Re: Cassette Recording Anyone?
From: "Klas Strandberg" klasstrandberg
Date: Sun Mar 4, 2007 10:05 am ((PST))
The biggest problem I found was modulation noise - that the tape
vibrated against the head.
You got a fairly low frequent noise, or hiss,  around every sound,
many times people blamed the Dolby for it and called it "Dolby-pump".
Some birds were impossible: A pure whistle could sound like the tone
from a flute + the sound from the flute players lips.

Klas.

At 18:41 2007-03-04, you wrote:
>Mine always went at least as high as 10k... sometimes 14k.
>
>Client was in transferring original cassettes, on the machine that
>recorded them (live piano) and they were solid up to 12-14k and then
>dropped off to nothing except hiss. Premium cassettes claimed to be 20
>- 20k but I don't see much over 15k ever. I use SpectraFoo while
>transferring to find this out.
>
><L>
>
>Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio =95 415-883-2689
>
>On Mar 4, 2007, at 5:42 AM, Marc Myers wrote:
>
> > I've wondered about this. How well did cassettes ever capture higher
> > frequencies?



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