Klarinet Archive - Posting 001040.txt from 1997/11

From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.net>
Subj: Re: distortion when recording clarinet
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 17:30:03 -0500

>As an aside to the recent thread about recording theory and technology;
>when you record the clarinet and and play back a cassette, and hear a
>flutter on the tape that you didn't hear on the DAT master, is this the
>playback system, the cassette tape or something else?
>
>Peter Stoll
>Instructor of Clarinet and Chamber Music
>University of Toronto

Flutter is one of the typical problems with analog playback systems. The
problem most likely lies in the playback and not in the tape (unless it is
a very old tape).

Also, cassette tapes have vastly smaller dynamic range than DATs (approx
60dB-70dB versus 96dB) so when you transfer from DAT to cassette, you must
be very careful that your peak loudness points don't go over the top of the
scale for the cassette.

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Jonathan Cohler
cohler@-----.net