Tape Trail

RE: I gave up on all of them.

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LtMandella

In Reply to: RE: I gave up on all of them. posted by Dave Pogue on January 23, 2020 at 08:30:36

Point taken.

Although would it not be reasonably practical to use some analog or horrors - even digital - EQ in the signal chain to correct for the dolby applied during recording?

There must be something wrong with me for not having something wrong.

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RE: I gave up on all of them. - ljb1 11:54:25 01/23/20 (0)
Both Dolby and DBX work on the principal of dynamic range compression/expansion. Simple EQ can only do a fixed roll-off or accentuate across a frequency band.
ljb
Do we really want a "practical" solution? - Dave Pogue 11:12:30 01/23/20 (0)
But you may have a point. If there were any REAL interest in this subject, someone would have come up with a Dolby processor that sounds as good -- as musical -- as the best current DACs. My search for musical Dolby playback once took me to a Nakamichi NR-200 -- I mean, NAK made great-sounding gear, right? -- and it was the absolute pits.

I was listening to cassettes just this morning. A friend gave me a bunch. I ended up playing several without Dolby B, and of course they ended up sounding more than a tad bright and wiry, but at least they didn't have that muffled, flat, a-musical sound that characterizes so many commercial cassettes. Cassettes don't have to sound that way -- I have plenty that don't -- and at least part of the reason lies with the Dolby itself and the way it was handled by 1980-era electronics.

Frankly, many of the cassettes I recorded back then -- with no processing at all -- sound a lot better today than any of the Dolbyized ones. Yeah, the tape hiss was more prominent, but so was the music.

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