Re: [ARSCLIST] National Recording Registry

[Mike Loughlin <mikel78_rpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Duane, The question is not about sound quality, it is about preservation and
access. If a recording sits in the library of congress and nobody hears it
does it make a sound. Sound quality can also be improved after transferring
to cd also, if that's what you want. The lady on the radio wanted to
preserve a recording of her great-grandmother's oral history of riding a
covered wagon into Missouri. The people on the show totally discouraged her.
She could have easily made many copies of the tape she had. That would have
given her a better chance of preserving her great-grandmas legacy than
hanging on to a single casette tape. No one is saying to throw away the
analog originals are they?-ml



http://www.mp3.com/edisonrecords





> From: "H. Duane Goldman" <thedoctor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx>
> To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] National Recording Registry
> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:00:01 -0600
>
> Well lets hope that at some point the sound quality becomes paramount.  It
> surely isn't using less than thoroughly cleaner recordings transferred to
> current digital formats.  Analog technology is still the more accurate
> representation available whether or not Sony & Phillips agree; and they
> were never interested in sound quality, only in a new product to sell.
>
> Somewhere the people involved got sidetracked by convenience & forgot to
> listen to the product, at least I hope that's the reason.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Duane Goldman
>
> At 01:30 PM 1/29/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > In a message dated 1/29/2003 10:07:58 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> > mikel78_rpm@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> > > The host said "with great difficulty".
> > > Here's how you do it fellas. You take a cassete recorder and hook it up
> > > to a
> > > phillips (or any other brand) cd recorder and you transfer it following
> > > the
> > > simple instructions in the manual. Converting sound recordings to digital
> > > recordings takes no expertise at all.
> >
> >
> > Boy is this true.  What I find in all of the work that I have done is
> > that, at the end of the day, with voice recordings especially, the quality
> > matters less than the content.  Spending too much time on quality rather
> > than on the value and the meaning of the content to contemporary
> > generations--  is a waste of time.  The host was completely uninformed and
> > probably turned off some young people who would like to do this sort of
> > thing.  Too bad.
> >
> > David Hoffman
> > independent documentary filmmaker
> > varied directions
> > <www.htm>www.theHoffmancollection.com
>
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