Eero Aro wrote:
Stefan Schreiber wrote:
I would call this a serious case of incompetence. In the sense that it
was possible to archive 3/4 channels, also in the 80s.
Strong words. I visited Nimbus in the early 90's. I must say that they
used
the best possible equipment that was available at the time.
The people at Nimbus Records were a little bit idealistic. They wanted to
gain as high quality as possible. To defend them, I need to tell that
they
were among the first record companies to use digital audio troughout the
production.
At the time multichannel digital audio recorders weren't available as
commercial
products for a record company. Nimbus used separate A/D converters
and Beta video tape. That was two channel. The editing was made with
a JVC video editing system, as digital audio workstations didn't exist.
I don't know this for sure but would believe that digital multitrack
recording should have been available at the beginning of the 90s, if not
some years earlier. (Digital tape formats? I would assume that it was
possible at this time to combine several stereo tapes into some
"virtual" multitrack tape, for archiving of multitrack master
recordings. Considering that they < did > DDD recordings since the
beginning of the 80s...)
In practical terms, if Nimbus would have wanted to record B-Format,
they would have needed to use analog multitrack with noise reduction
(which wouldn't have been too bad quality either). Why they didn't do
that,
I don't know.
See above.
They also did recordings elsewhere than in Wyastone Leys, in other
countries. As far as I remember, those used DAT, which also was two
channel.
Eero
DAT was a consumer format, certainly not developped for archiving purposes.
Maybe I am wrong. In any case, many people on this list could have
developped some "custom" solution, combining two stereo tapes, if we
have to archive just 3 or 4 tracks. (The main problem would have been
synchronization. This wouldn't be a problem today, as you could re-align
samples which had been synchronized anyway....)
Best,
Stefan
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