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- From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
- Subject: Re: ST:TNG Seasons 1-3 in stereo?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.171102.1564@i88.isc.com>
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- Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
- References: <4603@vidiot.UUCP> <1992Dec21.163919.6289@i88.isc.com> <4623@vidiot.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:11:02 GMT
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- In article <4623@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.163919.6289@i88.isc.com> jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
- ><Since ST:TNG is produced in stereo, the master audio source (be it analog tapes,
- ><digital audio on disk, or wax Edison cylinders) is undoubtedly much more
- ><than 2 track stereo. Mixing down to mono would be slightly less work than
- ><mixing to stereo (ignoring whatever effort it takes to do the surround),
- ><and conceivably could be done simultaneously, depending on the engineering
- ><facilities involved...
- >
- >Tapes used for making dubs don't go that far back. They normally use a 1"C,
- >or BetaCamSP tape, which is the already mixed stereo. To make the mono 1"C
- >PAL tapes that the BBC received required extra work to make mono.
-
- Are you sure about that? What about foreign language versions?
-
- >It is pretty stupid to make a mono tape.
-
- From a stereo master, perhaps, but if you plan on broadcasting in mono,
- you'd damn well better master the soundtrack for mono.
-
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