--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 183 AUDIO Ref: EFU00001 Date: 11/24/97 From: TERRY SMITH Time: 10:57pm \/To: CAMERON HALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: -10dB audio in AUDIO CH> Which one? B77? (If I remember my Revox numbers?) Damn fine stuff GR> Umm, A-77 I think was the domestic version. 3.5 ips / 7 ips CH> That clarifies it. I remember the 77 part... :-) Confuses it really, as the domestic version comment was wrong. They're different machines. CH> For commercial disks (factory made) yes. As to the ones you burn CH> yourself, they look "different" as to the pit track depth etc. Must be CH> the technology used in burning them. I don't know. CH> I wonder if there are still differences in sound from one pressing CH> plant to another, even with a digitally sorced tape... Theoretically, CH> there shouldn't be... Hmmm... On one-off CD's there are different qualities of burners, with some pretty marginal, and others more powerful and capable of burning through minor flaws. Mastering can be done with different levels of error and standards compliance checking. Someone with a $10 k Sonic Solutions system will do better on average than someone using a $2 k generic PC based system. Commercial production thereafter should show no difference in sound quality, unless you find a plant with a poor error rate problem. Terry --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Do it near resonance! (203)732-0575 (1:141/1275) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 183 AUDIO Ref: EFU00002 Date: 11/24/97 From: DAVE HALLIDAY Time: 08:46pm \/To: DMITRY IVCHENCKO (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Why? > Bonjour, Bill! Hello from Seattle, WA! BD>> Anyway, what's the music & audio scene like over there? Anything BD>> made domestically there, or is everything imported? > In Russia (that's where I live) we have very long tradition of > vacuum-lamp amplifiers making. I think you know, that most lamps, > used in USA made audio technic where imported to USA from USSR (and > China), because they has very small price with not bad quality. But > other (semiconductor) compounds, produced in USSR always was not of > the best quality, because our industry did not know any concurence. > That was caused by "soviet" centralised economic system. Only > military technic, produced in USSR was of the "world" quality... In > 1985 in USSR the "perestroika" began. The new gouvernement, witch > in the head where Gorbochev, tried to reparate economic system of > the country, byt in 1991 USSR had crashed down. The new Russian And the fun thing is that many people in the US prefer the sound that the vacuum-lamp amplifiers have rather than transistor amplifiers. The manufacturers in the US had declared Vacuum tubes to be "obsolete" and they stopped making them. When it became possible to do business with Russia, two companies: Svetlana and MosValve started selling fantastic quality tubes to very happy audiophiles!!! A vacuum tube will produce even order harmonics when it distorts - transistors product odd-order harmonics - even order sounds better. Another story is that there is a major German microphone company Neuman - their microphones sell for about $1,800US new for the cheap models. Neuman had an East German division which they lost when Berlin divided. This company is selling *their* microphones under the name "Microtech Geffel" and they are quite good! > interprises, who produced some not bad audio for home use was in > Estonia, Litva, Latvia, than after 1991 they become forigen for > Russia, but bacause only Russia always buyed all their production, > now they are in very bad situation - nobody in the world want to > buy their technic. If you understood what I wrote (with so "good" > English as mine, I think that was not very simple ;-) you must > understand too, that now in Russia we all are surrounded by > imported technic, because we have no domestic audio, but everybody > in the world want to sell us tomething after they received this > possibility :-) In the domain of home audio Panasonic try of all Maybe someone should check these companies out - really really good high-end vacuum tube amplifiers can sell for $1,000US on up. There is also a market for tube special effects: compressors, filters, limiters, etc... Best of luck! --- Via Silver Xpress V4.4 [Reg] * Origin: Grey Matter * Seattle, WA * 1:343/210 * (206) 528-1941 (1:343/210) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 183 AUDIO Ref: EFU00003 Date: 11/24/97 From: DAVE HALLIDAY Time: 08:48pm \/To: KRIS GEUSENS (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Filtering songs > Yaron Kaplan wrote in a message to All: YK>> Is there a program or a device that can filter out the musical YK>> instruments from a song and leave only the human voices ? > I don't think so. There are boxes that can filter out the voice and leave the instrument. They work because most records put the voice in the center and spread the instruments out from left to right. Using a couple OP AMps, you can delete anything common to both channels ( anything in the center ) and preserve anything more on one channel than on the other ( the left and the right ) SHould be OK to do this the other way *B*U*T* It will not completely eliminate the unwanted signal - you will always have some feedthrough. --- Via Silver Xpress V4.4 [Reg] * Origin: Grey Matter * Seattle, WA * 1:343/210 * (206) 528-1941 (1:343/210) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 183 AUDIO Ref: EFW00000 Date: 11/26/97 From: RON NEUWIRTH Time: 12:44pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Addonics Sound Card I have an Addonics sound card that mostly works with the Sound Blaster Pro drivers, but I have no control over volume or recording WAV files. It will play all the sound files I put thruogh it, but with no control over it. I bought this card at a computer show and had the software with it, but the CD-Rom the software was on is no longer readable and makes for a good coffee cup coaster. I've been able to adjust the ini file that controls this card to sometimes give me control of the master volume in Windows 3.1, but thats it. Any tips on how to get this thing back up to par like it used to be? --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Madman BBS * Chico, California * 530-893-8079 * (1:119/88) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 183 AUDIO Ref: EFW00001 Date: 11/21/97 From: FERNANDO ARIEL GONT Time: 06:55pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Audio CD's "sound effects" Hullo All , hope you are having a nice day!! Well, may be this msg. is a bit(?) offtopic, but here in Argentina we don't get a more relationed echo to the subject I'll ask you about....: I've made a very little program to play audio tracks, but the sound is not so good as when I use a CD player that runs under W'95 (Audiostation) and I select QSound, Stadium, Theatre, or such a "sound effect".... So I'd be pleased if you told me where could I get some stuff (sources, docs, and so on) about it... (FTP's and web pages' addresses).... -=> Yours sincerely, Fernando Ariel Gont <=- e-mail: FGont@siscor.bibnal.edu.ar FidoNet: 4:900/470.10 Sk-Network (Argentina): Murdock's Point (200:201/200.1) --- Terminate 5.00 UnReg(38) * Origin: This is not my MSX but.... (4:900/470.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 183 AUDIO Ref: EFW00002 Date: 11/23/97 From: FERNANDO ARIEL GONT Time: 06:55pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: raw and/or cooked Hullo All , hope you are having a nice day!! What's the difference between CDs supporting raw and cooked modes, and the ones that don't support both? What's the difference between raw and cooked modes? (I've read that for outputting text to the screen, for example, in cooked mode control characters take effect (for example: carriage return, line feed...), and in raw mode, they don't.... But I don't know how it applies to CD-ROMs...) -=> Yours sincerely, Fernando Ariel Gont <=- e-mail: FGont@siscor.bibnal.edu.ar FidoNet: 4:900/470.10 Sk-Network (Argentina): Murdock's Point (200:201/200.1) --- Terminate 5.00 UnReg(40) * Origin: A: -NiMiNisiNDa. B: - Minister!! (Just a. n. o.) (4:900/470.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 183 AUDIO Ref: EFW00003 Date: 11/24/97 From: THOM KOUWENHOVEN Time: 06:13pm \/To: MARTIN LEVI (Read 0 times) Subj: Why? Hallo Martin Op 15 Nov 97 22:36 had jij het over *Why?*... DA>>> Hebrew! Hebrew! ;-) ML>> Spanish! Spanish! :)) TK>> Dutch! Dutch! :)) ML> Damn english, it seems its necessary. :) Well...at least it's the best possible option...I don't know enough about the spanish language to communicate with anyone...I persume that english is the best option to reach most of the people... Hasta la vista. Groetenzenzovoorts, Thom *----* ... Kale jonkers, grote pronkers. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Aargh! BBS Amsterdam (31-20-6732585) (2:280/606.19) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 183 AUDIO Ref: EFX00000 Date: 11/27/97 From: LEE VAN GUNDY Time: 05:57pm \/To: ADAM PREBLE (Read 0 times) Subj: Saving the neighbers :-) At any rate... anybody know any good sights for techno/rave MOD AP> files? -ROCKO- Hello , umm i waswondering if you know about .MP3 format. It is quite better than mod and things that like. you can use them to dj and such,i have a good collection of dance/rave/techno stuff...if you want more information about mp3 just private msg me or something..or email me at cyberdmn@juno.com .. i can give oyu some hints and tips about this stuff. l8z |09-|01=|15Cyber Demon|01=|09- --- Shotgun v1.38a * Origin: The Hitchhikers Guide BBS (1:2004/205) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 183 AUDIO Ref: EFX00001 Date: 11/27/97 From: LEE VAN GUNDY Time: 06:02pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: 400 watt speaker and amp does anyone now how much a 400 15" sub woofer would cost? i am looking for a somewhat good brand. And also how much would a 400 watt amp cost to cary this wattage. thanks Lee --- Shotgun v1.38a * Origin: The Hitchhikers Guide BBS (1:2004/205) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 183 AUDIO Ref: EFY00000 Date: 11/26/97 From: ZACHARY J. GILLEY Time: 10:44am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Scratch Equipment... I was wondering if anyone had any idea of what comprises a good hip-hop turntable set up, the kind that they use to scratch and do all those ill effects, and if anyone does, could they lemme know the specs on it and the cabinet that it fit into? Thanks... --- * Origin: Never Never Land - (419)-476-3126 - Toledo, Ohio (1:234/54)