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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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geoffkait
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The name of Robert Ludwig’s company is Gateway Mastering, not Gateway Mixing. Stay in school, roberttcan, roberttdid, whatever.

http://www.gatewaymastering.com
roberttdid
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You are still just a troll ... who hijacks threads for your personal amusement and ego boost.  If you truly cared about audio and audiophiles, you wouldn't hijack threads to promote your unrelated thoughts of the day.

>>>>>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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I am not a troll. 🤥 But these threads do amuse me. Is that so wrong? 😬 I will let you win one of these discussions if and when it suits me. 🤗
roberttdid
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^^ Total troll.  Does not matter what the thread is about, you will find a way to talk about something that interests you.  "Is it possible to transfer analog tone and soundstage of vintage reel to reel to digital." .... has nothing to do with Cassettes, but you have been fixated on Cassettes so you bring it up.

Ditto it seems for light scatter in CDs, even if the thread is about streaming. "What the signal is", seems to be another thing you throw into discussions no matter whether appropriate. 


You love Wikipedia, so what does Wikipedia say about a Troll,
a troll is a person who starts flame wars or upsets people on the Internet by posting inflammatory and digressive,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses[2] and normalizing tangential discussion,[3] either for the troll's amusement or a specific gain.

That is what you do here in a nutshell.  Inflammatory - check, Digressive - check, Extraneous - Check, Off-Topic - Lots of checks .... usually mixed in with insults and personal attacks to provoke. Literally you are a textbook troll on these forums.
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geoffkait
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Give my condolences to your liver, roberttdid, roberttcan, whoever you are. Good luck in your quest to be somebody.
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