"Mr.T" MrT@home wrote in message
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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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I'm wondering whether Trevor knows much about how pro
analog tape machines work.
Indeed, or even amateur ones.
AFAIK Trevor has ample experience working with those.
Apparently, he thinks that the pro machines that were used to produce so
many recordings that he enjoys came from a different, eq-free universe.
And I'm still puzzled about his original distinction that
digital EQ is OK, but not analog EQ, which implies the
analog filters used for pre-emphasis etc are also crook,
Pro tape machines should give Trevor considerable cause for pause. They
routinely use analog minimum-phase filters to compensate for things like
non-minimum-phase effects like head gap losses.
then argues that ALL EQ is evil, but apparently *not* NAB, RIAA, etc.
I seem to recall that he gives them a pass becuase they are based on
complementary eq. IOW, the RIAA eq used to cut LPs (all 40+ dB of it!) is
complemented by the RIAA wq used to play them back.
I guess the paradox has eluded his thinking so far.
The devil is in the details.