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- From: mike@fionn.lbl.gov (Michael Helm)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
- Subject: Re: query: programmable audio tape recorders
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 02:35:03 GMT
- Organization: N.I.C.E.
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- Message-ID: <27613@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
- References: <1992Nov21.225058.3341@nysernet.org> <27607@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1ep0mmINNrbt@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Reply-To: mike@fionn.lbl.gov (Michael Helm)
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- Steve Pope writes:
- >There's another item to check for -- see if the hifi VCR you're
- >considering has a input (record) level control -- most of them
- >don't, which means you have an "AGC" circuit, which will compress
- >the audio.
-
- This is theoretically Awful if One were to record eg a CD --
- "But that would be wrong" (RMN).
-
- I've never been bothered by my unit's AGC for recording FM, tho.
- I suspect most stations are compressed anyway, many of them sound
- somewhat lifeless to me compared to CD, or maybe it's just the
- limitations of FM. Whatever the VCR HIFI is doing, it doesn't
- do it so it bothers me. I've haven't adjusted the level controls
- in a year & a half. I did adjust it in the first place, tho,
- so perhaps that initial tweeking made all the difference.
-