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<br><br><div>> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:50:38 +0000<br>> From: fons@linuxaudio.org<br>> To: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org<br>> Subject: Re: [LAU] New music, made with Ardour 3<br>> <br>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 08:47:38AM -0400, Al Thompson wrote:<br>> <br>> > I had actually been talking about normal audio tape (1/4" half-track). <br>> > Hi-fi VHS is built a little differently, and I'm not sure it responds<br>> > the same, or how the media itself compares to audio tape (Ampex 456, for<br>> > example).<br>> <br>> Hifi-VHS records the audio on FM subcarriers, the actual tape<br>> magnetisation curve has no impact on it at all. And indeed video<br>> tape is very different from audio tape, one of the reasons why<br>> standard linear audio recording on it doesn't provide high<br>> quality.<br>> <br>> Ciao,<br>> <br>> -- <br>> FA<br>> <br><br><br>Also NICAM isn't it? Which is 14bit adaptive digital audio.<br></div> </div></body>
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