Re: [ARSCLIST] To keep the tapes or not

["Copeland, Peter" <Peter.Copeland@xxxxx>]

Dear All,
    I'm afraid I must chime in on this topic. I'm not giving away any
secrets when I say that I know of work taking place to remove the
background hiss from under the wanted sounds recorded upon analogue
audio tape. Therefore, *if you are sure your tape is an original*, it
must be preserved to allow this work to be done in future. I know the
CEDAR "De-hisser" does a very good job, but it relies upon
psychoacoustics, whereas the new idea will recover any signal in
principle - including signals in the order of 20dB quieter than the tape
hiss.
Peter Copeland
Former Conservation Manager,
British Library Sound Archive.
<peter.copeland@xxxxxxxxxx> 

-----Original Message-----
From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
[mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lou Judson
Sent: 10 December 2005 15:14
To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] To keep the tapes or not

I think of that message that mentioned "irrational attachement to the 
format" or something like that - if there are not copyright issues you 
could give or sell them to some tape recorder fanatics, like on the 
reeltoreel yahoogroup... There are people who would either listen to 
them with pleasure or use them as blank tape for personal recreation.

2c,

Lou Judson * Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Dec 10, 2005, at 5:49 AM, Ganesh.Irelan@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> As I said, I will be retaining all originals.  So, the question 
> remains, why keep the 1/4" copies, which are one generation down in 
> the analog domain, when there are 2 CDs (protected by geographic 
> separation) and .wav files on site of all originals?

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