[peel] Archiving the tapes

[ROGER CARRUTHERS]

Right, the general rule for archiving being, 'just
make as accurate a copy as possible', the idea being
that it's much easier to modify the copy later, than
to undo any modifications made in the past (cf. the
awful butchery some of us have committed on our
recordings by over-zealous use of the pause button).
 Also, the future is likely to provide better tools
for doing stuff than we have now. For example noise
reduction and pitch/speed changing algorithms are
constantly improving, so you can bet your bum that if
you process the files with what's considered to be
state-of-the-art  now, someone looking at them in the
future will hate you for it.
 That said, there is also the Silk Purse/Sow's Ear
theorem, and at the end of the day, whatever people
have done with their recordings, we all appreciate the
time you've put in,
cheers
Roger
--- Jimmy Stepek <jimmystep@...> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> It's taken a bit longer to do than I expected :-)
> 
> Cheers....Jimmy
> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 4/9/08, bty997881
> <roger.carruthers@...> wrote:
> 
> > 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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