PCM was a digital format, DAT was basically the home version of it that came out later.
From what I remember, pressing plants didn't trust DAT as a delivery format and required you to send stuff on big PCM tapes to make CDs from, as the home DAT machines were deliberately crippled and couldn't do 44.1Khz, you needed to pay a lot more for a proper studio version to get that.
- Andy_R On 3 May 2013 10:46, Jondoeclsm <jondoeclsm@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
Strange-especially as we know they were using Dat machines already which they spoke about regarding chill out. Also that album is ssl solid state logic... Digital.
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Orbstreperous Fritz <orb@ocara.org> wrote:
My first master was on beta...
On 3 May 2013 10:16, Antti Lavio <antti.lavio@possu.org> wrote:
On 3.5.2013 11:59, Nick King wrote:
Betamax was still being used for broadcasting well into the 90's.
It's still weird to see it as a master tape.
However, "Betamax also had a significant part to play in the music recording industry, when Sony introduced its PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) digital recording system as an encoding box/PCM adaptor that connected to a Betamax recorder. The Sony PCM-F1 adaptor was sold with a companion Betamax VCR SL-2000 as a portable digital audio recording system. Many recording engineers used this system in the 1980s and 1990s to make their first digital master recordings." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Betamax<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax> )
So it might be real, but still bit odd as KLF used lot of DATs. Maybe it was requirement from cassette manufacturer.
Well, at least you can maybe count intended tracks for A/B-sides from those times :)
-- anttil
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