[LAU] New music, made with Ardour 3

Fons Adriaensen fons at linuxaudio.org
Mon Oct 24 21:50:38 UTC 2011


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 08:47:38AM -0400, Al Thompson wrote:
 
> I had actually been talking about normal audio tape (1/4" half-track). 
> Hi-fi VHS is built a little differently, and I'm not sure it responds
> the same, or how the media itself compares to audio tape (Ampex 456, for
> example).

Hifi-VHS records the audio on FM subcarriers, the actual tape
magnetisation curve has no impact on it at all. And indeed video
tape is very different from audio tape, one of the reasons why
standard linear audio recording on it doesn't provide high
quality.

Ciao,

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FA



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