[ProAudio] FeralA - Recordings released encoded with Dolby A

Corey Bailey Audio Engineering proaudio at baileyzone.net
Sun Feb 9 17:34:38 EST 2020


Hi Richard,

IIRC, it was Dolby B. Could have been "C" because, at the time, I used 
whatever was built into the record deck & was compatible with my car 
stereo so that I could switch the NR off.

Cheers!

Corey

Corey Bailey Audio Engineering
www.baileyzone.net

On 2/9/2020 11:23 AM, Richard L. Hess wrote:
> Hi, Scott, Bob, and Corey,
>
> Thank you very much for your quick and interesting replies.
>
> Scott, One of the main sources of this is CD reissues, but I'm not 
> certain what other sources my colleague, John, is using. Yes, you 
> bring up a good point about who-knows-what. So, perhaps the question 
> could be extended to any folklore that was circulating in the early 
> days of CD about how to deal with those overly bright master tapes 
> that had the silly yellow sticker on them that they didn't understand.
>
> Corey, for the cassettes, did you encode in Dolby A or Dolby B?
>
> Working with John on this has pointed out to me how much damage Dolby 
> A coding/decoding did to a recording. Back in the day, my purist 
> recording friend, Don Ososke from San Francisco never used Dolby as he 
> hated what it did to the music. I tried some dbx and found it horrid, 
> but I needed some NR on the choir recordings I was doing, so I sprung 
> for a pair of 361s and used them, but I'm really glad we have that 
> behind us now.
>
> The nice thing about John's software is that it reduces some of the 
> intermodulation that would other wise be an artifact of the NR 
> decoding process.
>
> Thanks again for all your thoughts.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
> On 2020-02-09 2:09 p.m., Corey Bailey Audio Engineering via ProAudio 
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> Of the mastering houses that I worked with during the 1970's (& I 
>> worked with several), I never saw or heard of a reference document 
>> regarding noise reduction. Both Scott Dorsey & Bob Olhsson referred 
>> to using Dolby A as an effect. Back in the day, I generally avoided 
>> noise reduction when recording to multitrack tape. I could hear the 
>> difference or, at least, I thought I could. That said, I used to 
>> routinely encode travel cassettes & then play them un-decoded in the 
>> car because the extra HF would help cut through the road noise.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Corey
>>
>> Corey Bailey Audio Engineering
>> www.baileyzone.net
>>
>
> -- 
> Richard L. Hess                   email:richard at richardhess.com
> Aurora, Ontario, Canadahttp://www.richardhess.com/
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