Was lowered fidelity of 60's tv show music a function of how it was recorded or something else in the production pipeline?
Don Pearce wrote:
The worst thing with white-up was that the signal amplitude was
proportion to brightness, so it was impossible to find the black
level. Sync would start to roll on bright scenes and the brightness
would breathe in and out as the scene's peak brightness changed.
For audio people, the first thing is that if the peak brightness was too
high, the thing would overmodulate and the splatter would cause buzzing in
the audio. This was most common with character generators set to make bright
white titles... the buzzing continued as long as the titles were on the
screen and of course the audio people were blamed.
Video is evil.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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