On Fri, April 11, 2008 10:30 pm, Ray Horton wrote: > Isn't the biggest problem with cassettes "print-through," that is, that > signal copies from itself onto blank sections of tape? This is heard > most typically as a pre-echo, a ghostly preview of music before a > segment starts. Doesn't this get worse with age and storage?
All tapes suffer from print-through, both pre- and post-echo ... though pre-echo is more annoying because it doesn't fall into the reverb. There's some old 35MM film recordings that Command Classics released on LP, and even with that thick medium you can hear the pre-echo. You can hear a different sort of pre-echo or distortion on some long LPs because the grooves are close together and the stampers push the walls of the neighboring grooves of the soft vinyl. Because of the higher noise level, narrower tracks, and generally looser tape pack, cassettes are not much worse, except for the extended-play ones (120 minutes) using thin tape. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
