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tape
Dolby and dbx noise reduction system
While there are dozens of different kinds of noise reduction, the first widely used audio noise reduction technique was developed by Ray Dolby in 1966. Intended for professional use, Dolby Type A was an encode/decode system in which the amplitude of frequencies in four bands was increased during recording (encoding), then decreased proportionately during playback (decoding). The Dolby B system (developed in conjunction with Henry Kloss) was a single band system designed for consumer products. In particular, when recording quiet parts of an audio signal, the ...
Ferric narrative of anon-celebrity, anti-celebrity ethos, tape is an escape from the snake of make it make up make over, a long loop stretched between ambition and insanity, a reel story to unravel at your leisure....
Each tape machine I use has a slightly differnt sound, mostly its imperceptible but sometimes there is a noticable quality of hiss and jingle that varies with the machine, generally the better the mchine the less the hiss but there is a tonal quality that cheaper machnes can have that is quite nice, so I use all kinds of tape machine from high end nakamichi to cheap philips data recorders.
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A cassette tape is a universally recognised thing, its shape is symbolic and it has outlived its technological niche of significance. This kind of ascociation and legacy of use underpins the whole technology of language, in all its conceptual relationship.
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