Ron Steele wrote on Fri, 28 October 2005 14:15 |
1.My contact at CRC first thought would be to track a short 4 piece rock based thing to 2" and PT HD at the same time. This would allow for a comparison of the effects of tape versus straight to digital.
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The proper way to do this would be to lock the two formats with timecode. Then bring up faders from each to the console....group and A/B playback from there.
What might be eye opening for some would be to monitor *on input* the two formats...i.e, compare to the source. We tend to forget that by the very nature of digital/PT we are already listening to the source converted twice. With the 2" on input, you're just listening to copper.
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2.Once a track was recorded, we would also transfer the 2" to PT HD to see how the transfer holds up in PT HD against the original 2".
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Why? This seems unnecessary to me if test 1 was conducted properly. Unless you just wanted to hear a source that lived temporarily on 2" before finding its way to PT.
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3. We could then test the summing of PT stemmed thru a neve or ssl, versus PT ITB summing.
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As for there being a drop of 6db at 50Hz with PTHD...a simply look at the signal with Spectrafoo or similar will tell you...not to mention your ears.
Ahhh...it never really ends, does it? I remember we did these tests with a Mitsu X-850, Sony 3324, and a Synclavier years ago.
Carry on.
Eric