<br><font size=3 face="Times">Digital distortion is an absolute disaster,
but is so easy to prevent, unlike analog which can creep up to clip.</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times">Jimmy Page "remastered" all the
Led Zep 1/2 track tapes for CD box set release. The reason is that
in the analog days, the 1/2 track would be equalized knowing that the record
pressing would loose and add certain frequencies. Digital acurrately reproduces.
This has made recording much easier and cheaper. No longer is a chain of
experts required to get a song from A to Z, even then it would change alot.
I have help my musician buddies, still dumb enough to be in the business,
record and release all digital "home" recordings that equal studio
quality-and the performances and superior because there is no money clock
ticking at $175/hour. Recording was like talking to a lawyer...get to the
point at $175/hr!!!!! </font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times">Anyone care why I have a tube amp guitar
amplifier, but hate tube amp PA/stereo amps?</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times"><b>"Digital done well is great. Digital
done poorly is really bad. I have three versions of Dave Brubeck's "Time
Out" . . . an original vinyl LP, an early digital release,
and a later "Audiophile" digital release. The original LP sounds
good, the early digital is bad. I assume whomever transferred the original
analog to digital had the volume set real low to avoid clipping, then digitally
"amplified" the data. The result is hard to describe, but
the "digital distortion" is most noticible on the persussion.
The later digital version sounds better than the LP.</b></font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times"><b>Bob Kane<br>
getterflash@yahoo.com "</b></font>
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Gray Fowler<br>
Senior Principal Chemical Engineer<br>
Radomes and Specialty Apertures<br>
Technical Staff Composites Engineering<br>
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