Steve Deckert
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TAPE ONE is now completed.
This tape is a never been heard before demonstration of a re-mastering process I have been developing over the years that has the ability to transmute digital back to analog and does so without a computer, solid state parts, nor even a circuit board. It's a 100% analogue process... organic, non GMO if you will.
Since the only way to hear this process is to have an analog playback system and since I can't press records here at Decware, I am taking this opportunity to let all of you hear it by making the entire first tape using it.
It's important to understand that the source for this tape was not high resolution digital files, nor even rebook CD, but rather a stream from the internet at 320 kbps, which is how so many of us are now listening to digital with our computers. I figure if the process actually works, it will work on that.
This gives those of you who get on the list to hear the tapes, an opportunity to do direct side by side comparisons of the tracks on the tape with the original source tracks from the internet.
Some of the tracks on Palomino's original track list were omitted because the process highlights errors in the recording, such as tiny sibilances, and peak distortions that were previously masked just enough to sound OK. Even many of the tracks on this tape have minor distortions that are notated on the tape as part of the process. Remember this is a work in process. Also, the presence that results from this process which is in part the 632 tape I use for digital sources, includes some tape hiss in this demo because I personally prefer it. It let's me know I'm hearing everything. Sometimes it's not even tape hiss but just the self noise of the microphones used in the recording. Nevertheless, when you hear the tape hiss I want you to imagine what it would sound like filtered out so you couldn't hear it... and try to listen to the low level detail that is inside that tape hiss as if it were deleted. That said, tape hiss is not a byproduct of the process, and can easily be avoided at will.
So here is the Tape One
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