On 10/23/2011 09:39 PM, Leigh Dyer wrote: > > I had actually been thinking about trying exactly that -- I do have a > good quality hi-fi VCR here still, despite the fact that I haven't > used it in years -- so I set it up yesterday and gave it a go. I > hooked my laptop up to the VCR, played the track while recording, then > swapped the connectors around, rewound the tape, and recorded the > audio from the VCR back in to the laptop. > > It's amazing just how clean the signal from the VCR is. In fact, it's > so clean that it sounds identical to the original audio to me. > Comparing the signals in Japa, I can see a sub-50Hz hump in the VCR's > audio, and a slight roll off above about 10KHz. There's clearly some > stuff going on in the time domain, too, but it's very subtle, and I > definitely can't hear it myself. > > So, an interesting exercise, but perhaps a pointless one :) I can > upload the audio if anyone's curious and wants to do their own > comparisons, though. > 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). -- --- My website is down. I had a motherboard failure on that computer!! (ugh) http://lateralforce.no-ip.org My blog, with commentary on a variety of things, including audio, mixing, equipment, etc, is at: http://audioandmore.wordpress.com Staat heißt das kälteste aller kalten Ungeheuer. Kalt lügt es auch; und diese Lüge kriecht aus seinem Munde: 'Ich, der Staat, bin das Volk.' - [Friedrich Nietzsche] _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
