On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 00:43:30 -0400, Jay Levitt wrote:

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http://www.jay.fm/files/oh-darlin-bridge-before.mp3
http://www.jay.fm/files/oh-darlin-bridge-after.mp3

Jay, I'm getting 404 error on both of files, is it me or?

-- As to the graph image you posted, I understand you ought not have
too much worries with the tape hiss. The prominent frequencies are
around 60 Hz and lower and in general, the noise ceiling seems not to
be too high. But let me see the samples please, I've got curious.

Look, recently I've bought a CD of Pink Floyd's "Obscured by Clouds",
a movie soundtrack they've made in mid seventhies. I think Alan
Parsons has been the engineer {I like his work, that unique reverb}.
On the CD, it says "Digital Remaster 1995". I transfered some numbers
to the PC and analyzed them. They didn't even "normalize" the tracks;
you can hear clicks from a switch on the console or at the synthetiser
here and there, (was it the A.R.P. or the Moog, I don't know but it
sounds mighty) the (admittely very modest) tape hiss adding with
overdubs, even a deliberately made 3 dB change in level at an end of
the tune (Wots...) . Not all the tracks were recorded with same
quality. It was in the seventhies and I'm assured, nobody, or very few
stubborn audiophiles, even bothered. Pink Floyd were simply too good.

I think EMI would transfer the masters on the CD as they were, and
_this_ was the way to go.

Edi Zubovic, Crikvenica, Croatia