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, -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user