OT Joe Walsh
geoff wrote:
On 16/02/2016 3:59 AM, JackA wrote:
"With the introduction of the CD in 1982, the cutting engineer was
now finally known as a mastering engineer was forced into the digital
age using a modified video tape recorder called the Sony 1630 to
deliver a digital CD master to the replicator, but still utilizing
many of the analog tools from the vinyl past from EQ and compression.
The 1989 introduction of the Sonic Solutions Digital Audio
Workstation with pre-mastering software provided a CD master instead
of a bulky 1630".
So what's this 'Conservative settings' ?
That's also not really correct. The 1630 is the box that sits in front of
the video recorder, it's not the recorder itself. And the 1630 was preceded
by the 1610. And Sony DID offer a very horrible and clumsy editing system
using those machines.
When the Sonic system came out, it was mostly being used for editing digital
data which would then be dumped back through a 1630 machine to ship to the
pressing plant. This got more or less replaced with DDP files on Exabyte
and then PMCDs came a few years later. The PMCD didn't come around until
Kodak finally got a reliable CD-R machine.
But... NONE of this equipment, save occasionally the Sonic workstation, was
ever really used for processing. Throughout this whole evolution, everyone
kept using their analogue processing chains. Most mastering rooms still do.
So none of this statement really has anything at all to do with any processing
that might be done in the mastering room.
--scott
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