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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
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roberttdid
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YOUR silly little attacks aside, and your obtuseness at not even remembering what you wrote 10 minutes ago, it seems YOU care who was responsible since you attempted to attack me just 1 post ago with a Wikipedia link no less. Troll.

>>>>>Unfortunately for your “observation” your point is incorrect as the loudness wars has to do with mastering practices, not mixing.
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geoffkait
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Wow, you’re even dumber than I thought. Which is saying something. 
roberttdid
534 posts
 
YOUR silly little and childish attacks aside, and your obtuseness at not even remembering what you wrote 10 minutes ago, it seems YOU care who was responsible since you attempted to attack me just 2 posts ago with a Wikipedia link no less. You are still just a troll.

>>>>>Unfortunately for your “observation” your point is incorrect as the loudness wars has to do with mastering practices, not mixing.

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geoffkait
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You can’t even keep up with the conversation. You’re a clumsy oaf.
roberttdid
534 posts
 
YOUR silly little and childish attacks aside, and your obtuseness at not even remembering what you wrote 20 minutes ago, it seems YOU care who was responsible since you attempted to attack me just 3 posts ago with a Wikipedia link no less. You are still just a troll ... who hijacks threads for your personal amusement.

>>>>>Unfortunately for your “observation” your point is incorrect as the loudness wars has to do with mastering practices, not mixing.

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