----- note that Mike stopped reading here, reaching for his gun:
I did not stop there. I read the article in its entirety and chose not to comment on what followed.
----- now, if he had read on, then the following text would have appeared before his eyes:
For this reason I have proposed to IASA that we recommend that any pitching is made on a secondary carrier obtained by a first transfer. Now, in the old days, a cassette was ideal for this, because you would not use tonal fidelity, only pitch fidelity as the goal. [there was more, and specific advice, but no reason to quote further]
----- Mike, all you had to do was to say "I agree!"
Except that I do not. That "secondary carrier" is an interesting device with which I am completely unfamiliar. You seem to suggest a single capture used both for determining proper pitch and obtaining some sort of master. Presumably, that master would be some idealized analogue format. I do not capture in analogue - in fact, my primary open-reel deck does not record at all. I know of no way to obtain a secondary digital signal which would not require resampling after the proper pitch was determined; or a secondary analogue signal which would be considered preferably to the primary one.
Mike mrichter@xxxxxxx http://www.mrichter.com/