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<p>Hi, Bob,</p>
<p>Thanks for the confirmation. I was looking for standards for a
reissue. Fortunately, the composer in my current project wrote on
one of the boxes and told me his scheme, so we've actually ID'd
the tracks as LF, LR, RF, RR to avoid confusion down the road.
However none of the boxes until the 1970s ones had any metadata on
them. However, the composer told me he was using noise reduction
on all of them, but he was unsure if it was Dolby A or dbx. Well,
considering the earliest was 1967, that dated it to Dolby A, but
there were no tones on the tapes. I had an old 1/2-inch 185 nWb/m
single tone test tape which was Dolby level in the early days, so
I aligned to that and it seemed to work well. The stereo CD
release was obviously made without the Dolby decode. GRR. My pair
of Dolby 363s accomplished that in real time.</p>
<p>Yes, everything like this becomes a science project...which is
why I try and stress that knowing history is important--it really
helps.</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Richard<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-01-24 9:36 p.m., Bob Shumaker
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<div> <font size="3">I've worked with a number of electronic
music composers since about 1970 and there certainly wasn't
any standard for the channels of quad/surround concerts at
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<div>Hi, All,</div>
I was asked to digitize a small collection of the early
work of of an electronic music composer from the 1960s
and 1970s. The person sponsoring the work would like to
know how to possibly distribute these recordings,
perhaps for sale, but is interested in preserving them
for as long as possible.
<div>The obvious suggestion is WAV files in a trusted
digital repository. I already have the sets of 4 mono
WAV files at 192/24 that I made. The question is "now
what?"</div>
<div>One friend says he doesn't know much about the
mechanics, but his Oppo player will handle just about
any released quad he's found either on an optical disc
or on a thumb drive downloaded.</div>
<div>Are there any standards for formatting multichannel
WAV or FLAC files (both are capable of this). The
composer's standard was starting at rear right (1)
going clockwise to front right (4). My few 1970s
recordings in quad were 1,2 and 3,4 for front/rear--I
think--though the one quarter track one I did was
perhaps LR LF RF RR to keep the front channels away
from the edges--I haven't seen that tape for years,
but I may still have it. I was fairly good with
metadata from the start.<br>
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<div>Is there any ISO standard for 4.0 distribution?</div>
<div>Any help/suggestions on how to do the "right" thing
would be appreciated! I have spent time searching, but
I'm not finding the right keywords, I guess.<br>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Richard<br>
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