When I majored in Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas back in the eighties, we had reel-to-reel stereo and eight-tracks ( not 8 track tapes, but big wide reel tapes that had eight tracks of simultaneous music recorded ). Nowadays even the "poor" high schools in town have all the digital tools that just blow me away. I feel so old ... As an aside, when I was in middle school, I used a cassette recorder to record myself playing 1st Clarinet (of a quartet), then played that with my sister's cassette recorder and played 2nd Clarinet along with the first recording, recording back on the first tape recorder. Like that. It sounded awful! But even before I discovered Yello and electronic music, I was goofing around with it. We must just be born this way! -----Original Message----- From: yello-bounces+tourguide=austexecotours.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:yello-bounces+tourguide=austexecotours.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Julian Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 1969 6:13 PM To: The moon: beautiful. The sun: even more beautiful. Subject: Re: [Yello] Yello from Oz Actually the re-masters came from the old real to real multitrack tape (don't know the proper name for this type of tape). I guess the tapes have been in really bad shape. They would play the tape over and over again until the tempo didn't fluctuate. Then he would record the old recording and re-master it. He said that after a few tries the tape head would get gummy material on the playyhead coming of the tape. After that he just stores it on hard drive and backs it up on CD and DVD. Be glad they're doing this so the originals can be preserved. julian On Oct 7, 2005, at 6:34 PM, Laurens van Graft wrote:
I would imagine that the masters were saved on DAT (for plane Jane folks, that's Digital Audio Tape). Something that was around then, but not affordable to the 'common man'. I would imagine that as the early work was created in part with a 'FAIRLIGHT' (model III i think), the additional expense of owning a DAT would be minimal, and yet necessary for archiving the creations. Thus, the originals were (probably) not converted to Analogue except to master the vinyl, or release the 'CASSETTE' tapes (anyone remember those?), rendering the original material as crisp and clean as possable, without any tape hiss (anyone listen to the original CD release of Pink Floyd's DARK SIDE OF THE MOON? OK, that was a cheep stab at connecting YELLO, to PINK FLOYD, but listening to that, even though it was on CD, the origial master was on Reel to Reel tape, and the tape hiss is deafining! It was so bad, that they had to re-record the album to allow it to be enjoyed on CD. This might explane the great sound quality of the Remaster Series.
Trivia Question now, What was the first ever released DDD Rock n' Roll album released? Laurens van Graft The Grip Guy (thegripguy@rogers.com) All your gymnastics grip needs right here!
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On Oct 7, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Paul Jones wrote:
My question is this; how can the original masters be improved upon, I would have presumed that even audiophiles consider vinyl to have an awesome depth and extremely capable and reproducing most bandwidths that the majority of us could hear anyway, in which case these new sounding track sound so much better, why? I appreciate that many of you have not heard them yet so you'll have to accept that it is that good. Anyway they will be released very soon and we can all shell out some more dough.
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