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TL;DR: it depends on the recordings. You can't make a blanket statement about it.
Vinyl has one advantage over CDs: mastered audio, pressed to vinyl, cannot be extreme in its nature. Brick wall limiting just doesn't work on vinyl because the extreme peaks and valleys it creates in the playback groove cause the needle to skip and jump out of the groove. The ...
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As always, you get what you pay for.
I have been using the Yamaha 01V for years now, and have never had to restart it. Nor have I ever had any real trouble with it.
As long as you stick with a major brand that has a good reputation, you should be fine.
One thing to keep in mind however, a digital mixer is basically a computer. Having a solid source of ...
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No. Once bounced, always bounced in the analog world. The separate track information is no longer available on the cassette. Your best bet is to treat the bounced tracks more like an exercise in mastering than an exercise in mixing -- use some multi-band compression to bring up or down instruments a bit, use some judicious parametric EQ to isolate and ...
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You're right in that when your digital signal "clips" at 0dB, it's an absolute maximum limit. 16-bit audio has 2^16 possible volume levels, and once you get to 2^16, there's no higher number to express your sound, so it maxes out, or clips.
With analog signals, your "clipping" limit is less well defined. The term distortion in an amplifier just refers to ...
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It's a well known issue that red component in video devices suffers in presentation.
The reason is the red color's long wave length and that our eyes respond more to long wave ranges (not to be confused with color sensitivity which would be in yellow-green range).
For us to perceive the colors as equal (ref. responsiveness) the green and blue are ...
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Analogue medium do technically have a higher dynamical range than digital due to the nature of being analogue ("atom"-level wave description, although you have material limitations of the material vinyl itself, but still). If the human ear can hear the difference of a 24-bit digital version of it, or even a 16-bit version, is of course open for debate.
If ...
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It's not an illusion - it's called chroma subsampling.
Most video codecs do not represent colour in full resolution as a way of achieving greater compression by taking advantage of the way that the human eye is more sensitive to brightness ("luma") than colour ("chroma"). Many codecs don't bother giving you too much colour information when you're not going ...
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While pure red is tough to match, partly due to our visual sensitivity in that region, I've never noticed any tendency for red to 'pixelate' more than any other color. Maybe you're seeing an artifact of compression? Do you also see this in non-electronic displays like backlit signs, etc?
Another answer here claims that manufacturers kept secrets about color ...
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The tuned teeth (or lamellae) of the steel comb is typically set to a chromatic scale. To change the tuning would require adding or subtracting material to an individual tooth with some trial and error and a good ear. Changing the length would cancel the action of the pins on the revolving cylinder so that is not a good idea.
If you think the scale you have ...
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A long VGA cable with a proper amp/spliter on the TX side, would be the simplest option. You can get good VGA cables up to 150' at modest prices from http://www.pccables.com .
Another good option is a CAT5 extender kit.
http://milestek.com/p-16209-vga-over-cat5ecat6-decora-wall-plate-set.aspx
Without a more detailed description of what you are trying to ...
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You're going to want to qualify exactly what "better" means. The quality of sound is a highly subjective topic, especially where digital and analog recording media are concerned.
Many people prefer the sound of vinyl. Lots of people prefer "cleaner" digital sound as well.
Personally, I like the sound of recordings on vinyl. This includes the cracks and ...
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Here are the basic steps to get this going. You will only need the RCA cables to connect the turntable to the amp and the amp to the tape deck.
Plug the turntable output into the phono input of the amp (SU-Z760).
Set the Selector knob on the amp to phono. It should send the signal both tape deck outputs.
Plug the tape 1 out (rec) of the amp to the ...
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The best quick, comprehensive, practical introduction to the film pipeline that I know of is the DV Rebel's Guide by Stu Maschwitz. It doesn't cover everything in depth, but it will give you enough terminology to know what else to search for. Film and video have very different workflows, but based on your question, it sounds like that may be part of what ...
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With analog equipment, if the signal level rises above the maximum input level of the equipment, it will begin to distort. The corresponding output level may or may not continue to increase, depending on the equipment. At some point, you will begin to damage the equipment.
Equipment that has Line-Level inputs will typically not accept levels much beyond ...
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The difference between those two products is that one includes an analog to digital converter and a digital output, in addition to the analog outputs. You might want the digital output if you have a mac (most modern macs have digital input) but no outboard audio interface. Or if you have other gear with S/PDIF digital input.
Don't trust me (really). Check ...
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First, make sure the head of your "new" 424 is in good shape. Tape heads can go out of alignment, which will significantly reduce the quality of the signal you are able to get our of your tape.
Next, even if you can get your system to recognize a pair of 2-channel recorders (easier on OS X with its Aggregate Devices than on Windows), they still won't be ...
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The main challenge with digital audio is that it is difficult to tell if it has been edited or spliced together since there are no generations of loss. A lossy format such as MP3 would further complicate this as it would make any minor issues with cutting things together more difficult to distinguish. It should be easy enough to identify the speaker, but ...
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An MP3 file is a very poor source for any kind of analysis. This is because MP3 files involve lossy compression, and the degree of compression can vary depending on how the file was encoded. The lossy compression process removes content that the human ear-brain system doesn't notice, but some of that information may be relevant for the type of forensics you ...
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I think the issue you see here is actually because of bright pixels against a very dark background.
Most lossy compression takes into account that we are far more perceptive to lightness differences than we are color differences. Depending on the codec used, and encoding options chosen, the blocks used for approximating the video can be fixed size, which ...
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The worst part of transferring old VHS to DVD is that it has to be done in real time as VHS is linear access and analog. Here are two ways I know of that work. One will eat your time the other will eat your wallet.
1) for about $35 or less you can get a transfer device which connects the output of your VHS machine into a USB interface to your computer. ...
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To at least partially answer this question:
Is there a name for this feature (assigning/pairing analog audio with HDMI/DVI video) that I can use as a search term?
Most audio/video receivers produced now handle analog and digital audio and video. Even most of the least expensive receivers nowadays have HDMI in/out. There isn't really a term for it, ...
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I prefer the sound of well looked after vinyl through a decent record deck - and enough people feel the same that high end audio companies tend to specialise in this area.
A CD will sound the same every time, but the vinyl will sound warm and lovely at first...while degrading over time.
I have to admit I prefer the sound of a good tape deck to a CD so ...
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Vinyl has the potential to sound better than CD, especially for frequencies higher than 10kHz. But to get the full potential of the vinyl, the copy of the vinyl must be one of the first from the master, not been played before, and you must have a very good record player that is correctly calibrated and have a new pickup. Every time you play the record you ...
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In theory it's possible with a product like Celemony Melodyne Editor, which allows access to the individual notes of a mixed-down recording.
Some of its claimed capabilites:
move an audio note to a different
pitch or a different position.
Make notes longer or shorter, louder
or softer.
Delete notes from chords or add new
ones by copying.
EDIT: Some ...
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