That's pretty cool! Gorilla recording if I ever saw it :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:16 PM, DJ Android <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://android.dj">android.dj</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">This was a fun idea I saw the other day<br>
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sound and video samples inside<br>
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<a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/02/cheap-tape-saturation-hack-delicious-distortion-with-a-tape-to-cd-adapter/" target="_blank">http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/02/cheap-tape-saturation-hack-delicious-distortion-with-a-tape-to-cd-adapter/</a><br>
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> On 23/04/11 11:46, Larry Pham wrote:<br>
>> From the days I heard music played from DAT, I have always loved the sound.<br>
>> Warm, clean and that je ne sais quoi quality about it. I later learned about<br>
>> AD/DA converters and that was what gave the DAT its "sound". Now that DAT<br>
>> recorders are a dime a dozen, I've managed to score 2 Panasonic SV-4100 and a<br>
>> Tascam DA30MKII. I would like to experiment chaining them together to pass a<br>
>> signal through the AD/DA converters using the spdif and analog inputs. Before I<br>
>> go rush out to buy more spdif cables, I'm wondering if there would be any<br>
>> benefit by doing this? Will I get a super fat coloured and saturated sound or<br>
>> will I just add more noise and end up with crap?? Any opinions?<br>
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> Hi Larry<br>
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> Yeah - early "pro" ADDA was really crap, hence the "sound", but there are so<br>
> many variants on conversion. I think generally the terms fat, coloured,<br>
> saturated, are not associated with these conversion systems.<br>
><br>
> By contrast, analogue distortion, whether it be from a filter in a synth, or<br>
> more subtly from the endless signal paths in a Soundcraft mixing desk, tended to<br>
> add something musical, even if it was unintended.<br>
><br>
> Tony (HB)<br>
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