Re: [Gwc-general] restoration of dynamic range in vinyl recordings?

[James T. <ja...@ta...>]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 11:45:52 -0500
David Black <da...@ja...> wrote:

> In the course of digitizing "modern" stereo 33 1/3 RPM LPs, I have 
> noticed what seems to be a consistent dynamic range compression 
> characteristic applied right at the top of the loudness range.   It is 
> very apparent on the sound card VU meters as I record, and reminds me of
> 
> what FM broadcast stations do to ensure they avoid overmodulation.  Same
> 
> thing here with grooves, I suppose - and I am assuming it's not just my 
> phono cartridge (Audio-Technica 3003) or preamp that's doing it.

What sound card do you have? I recall having a similar sort of thing with
a Trident-based Hoontech card, where anything that went above about +/-15k
ADU's was squashed out so that it was virtually impossible to get a true
saturated sample. Whereas with the Envy24 based card I now use it just
hits the buffers at full speed.

James

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