[peel] Archiving the tapes

[RobF]

I have to admit I was working on the assumption that we were archiving "the shows" rather than "the tapes" - as it's the content we're primarily interested in. So reuniting the various chunks of shows spread across multiple tapes was my priority. 

> I'm just about ready to return my batch, probably at the weekend. As these are archive files I have not amended them in any way. They should be a faithful reproduction of the audio from the tapes. The archive files should at some time be made available to interested parties. 
> I'll work on copies of the files to stitch together mp3's of the various dates I have for sharing. The wiki will be updated at the weekend.
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> It's taken a bit longer to do than I expected :-)
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> Cheers....Jimmy
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> --- On Thu, 4/9/08, bty997881 <roger.carruthers@...> wrote:
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> > From: bty997881 <roger.carruthers@...>
> > Subject: [peel] Archiving the tapes
> > To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Thursday, 4 September, 2008, 10:33 AM
> > Before committing my first batch to DVD and returning them
> > to Rocker, I just want to confirm 
> > that we're all reading from the same playlist wrt
> > archiving, ie. the .flac copies are just 
> > straight recordings, as they come, and not to be tweaked in
> > any way, right ?
> > 
> >  The reason I ask is that although it would be normal
> > practice when archiving /not/ to do any 
> > EQ , pitch correction, noise reduction etc. I'm just
> > wondering where we stand on, say a tape 
> > that becomes one-legged in parts, ie. one channel fades to
> > virtually nothing but noise? As 
> > these are all mono recordings, I would normally correct
> > this, but wondered whether you'd 
> > prefer it just as it is (for the archive copy) ?
> > 
> >  I will almost certainly clean up the .mp3 copies I upload,
> > but I'm assuming the archive 
> > copies exist simply as insurance against the million things
> > that can, and too frequently do, 
> > go wrong with tapes,
> > cheers
> > Roger 
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