By the way, is this a new strategy of yours, you know, trying to defuse awkward situations rather than inflame them? I don’t think I’ve seen this side of you before.
Is it possible to transfer analog tone and soundstage of vintage reel to reel to digital.
Sam here again. I have a hi-res digital rip of the rolling stones sticky fingers album from an original commercial reel to reel tape from 1971 and the analog warmth and soundstage is as good as it gets to my ears. loudness war free sound. https://postimg.cc/rDmzvR80
I realize there are many digital plugins that emulate the sound of analog tape and vinyl, however when I use them in post processing of digital audio I seem to get further away from the sound I'm trying to achieve? Now I may be naive on the subject, but if I want to digitally replicate the sound of vintage analog tape in the digital domain, why not go directly to the source? Heres what I did I extracted 1 second of analog tape sound between tracks and made an impulse file for the convolver dsp filter for foobar2000. I believe it made the digital download sound better, however, I'm not 100% sure. Here are my audio samples (1) reel to reel (2) commercial digital download (3) commercial digital download with the impulse filter applied. I used replay gain to normalize the volume to 89db for all three samples.
(1) reel to reel (1971) 24/192 http://u.pc.cd/d2qrtalK
(2) commercial digital download flac16/44 2009 remaster http://u.pc.cd/4oditalK
(3) commercial digital download flac16/44 2009 remaster.impulse applied http://u.pc.cd/99ActalK
I realize there are many digital plugins that emulate the sound of analog tape and vinyl, however when I use them in post processing of digital audio I seem to get further away from the sound I'm trying to achieve? Now I may be naive on the subject, but if I want to digitally replicate the sound of vintage analog tape in the digital domain, why not go directly to the source? Heres what I did I extracted 1 second of analog tape sound between tracks and made an impulse file for the convolver dsp filter for foobar2000. I believe it made the digital download sound better, however, I'm not 100% sure. Here are my audio samples (1) reel to reel (2) commercial digital download (3) commercial digital download with the impulse filter applied. I used replay gain to normalize the volume to 89db for all three samples.
(1) reel to reel (1971) 24/192 http://u.pc.cd/d2qrtalK
(2) commercial digital download flac16/44 2009 remaster http://u.pc.cd/4oditalK
(3) commercial digital download flac16/44 2009 remaster.impulse applied http://u.pc.cd/99ActalK
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roberttdid, "I think you have your answer already in the last 4 words of your statement. It is all in the mixing, and what you like is the mixing. The format is secondary in this case. Sam here again. I have a hi-res digital rip of the rolling stones sticky fingers album from an original commercial reel to reel tape from 1971 and the analog warmth and soundstage is as good as it gets to my ears. loudness war free sound." So it's not the digital plug-ins but simply different mixes? I think it might be time for guitarsam to come back with his conclusion. |
Sam here thanks for the comments.
Based on my test, here are my conclusions. (1) creating an impulse file from vinyl or tape and applying, to digital audio is not the most effective way of improving the sound of digital audio. (2) Playing a digital vinyl rip from my PC desktop with the volume turned all the way down and then taking a digital album and making a copy of the album on your computer while the vinyl song is playing in the background with the volume turned down and the vinyl frequencies will be encoded onto the digital copy. the digital copy will sound more like vinyl. Here are 3 digital audio samples from the same source 1 sample has vinyl frequencies encoded onto it as described above, the answer is in the clickable pic below the samples. norah jones - painter song digital download 16/44 (1) http://u.pc.cd/nkXrtalK (2) http://u.pc.cd/d0e7 (3) http://u.pc.cd/Sev answer: https://postimg.cc/SjyMVkgn |
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