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What is the difference between Analog and Digital sound when trying to verify the authenticity of the audio source
I am trying to find out if it is indeed possible to do real sound analysis on a digital source sound file, to determine for example, if the voice of someone in an audio file is the real one or only ...
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“Digitally Remastered” Vinyl albums
I have a vinyl record that says it has been digitally remastered - this would mean that there is no true analogue wave anymore. One reason I still have and buy vinyl albums is because they are ...
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Why does the color red always appear pixelated on TV and videos on the PC?
I hope this isn't off-topic. While technically about video production, it's not about a problem I am having.
Have you ever noticed on TV how the color red is always noticeably pixelated? It's the ...
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How to tune a musicbox
I want to try to make my own musicbox. The picture below shows what I mean:
I was wondering how to determine the length of the metal tone generating plates (shown in dark grey). I assume it is a ...
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what is an A/D converter? and a recommendation about it
So its an analog to digital converter that uses sampling and quantization? I understand all of that but it sounds to me like it would change the outputted sound. How exactly is this performed?
The ...
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Digitizing Casette 4-Track Tapes via Behringer U-Control UCA 222
I'm looking to digitize a bunch of 4-track tapes I made when I was teenager. I acquired a Tascam 424 (the same model I originally recorded on) which has the ability to route each track to a separate ...
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Assigning analog audio to play with HDMI/DVI video on an A/V receiver
I've got a computer I use to play a lot of media. The computer has a DVI video output and a standard analog audio soundcard. I currently have an audio-only receiver so I set the receiver to use the ...
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Video capture device for senior citizen
My father has a large collection of video tapes that he wants to transfer to digital format. He's brilliant, but getting up in age and I'm finding that he is having an increasingly harder time with ...
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Cheapest way to convert from toslink to 4 channel analog audio?
I have a mac-mini and an old analog 4.1 set of speakers and I want to use all 4 channels instead of only two.
I do not have a receiver and I am looking for the least expensive way of achieving 4 ...
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TV tuner streams low quality TV video
I've bought EyeTV Hybrid from Elgato, an USB TV tuner to watch television on mac.
I've plugged to the USB stick my tv antenna cable (free air-broadcasted analog television).
It works, but the image ...
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What's the best setup to transfer a digital or analog video over 100 ft?
I'm looking for the best (price/quality) solution to send a digital or analog video signal to an lcd tv or beamer over 80 - 100 ft. The input can be hdmi, vga or dvi (all must be possible). The output ...
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What are good resources to learn the production side for an end-user focused software guy?
I'm a software developer type of person who works a lot with systems that stream media (movies, music videos etc) to end-users over various channels. I know a lot about video files and how to play ...
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What causes the limitation on excessive analog signals vs. digital signals?
In the digital world, "clipping" would occur when a signal passes above 0db.
But if you are dealing with analog equipment, is there a certain "ceiling" that tends to "brickwall" the signal down as ...
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Do vinyl records sound better than CDs? [closed]
Is this true, or it's just a placebo effect?
Personally I don't hear any differences besides the usual vinyl "cracks" and random noises...
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How do I record songs straight from a vinyl record to a cassette tape?
I really know nothing about the process at all, save that I like how things sound a lot more on analog formats than digital, and that I want to make a mixtape for someone that preserves that sound ...
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Old portastudio audio — can bounced tracks be separated out?
I'm restoring a recording from ~1992. The original was cut to a cassette on a Tascam 424 Portastudio. There are two tracks of just vocals, and they transferred extremely well to Garageband. The other ...
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Is there still any reliability gap between digital and analog mixers
In the last 10 year I've seen most concerts switch from analog to digital mixers. In the early days there were wild stories about the unreliability of digital boards and the fear of needing a restart ...
