https://worldradiohistory.com/Archi...g-Engineer/80s/Recording-1985-10.pdf#page=138^^^
SQ/Tate soundtrack production of David Bowie's Serious Moonlight
Kirk Bayne
SQ/Tate soundtrack production of David Bowie's Serious Moonlight
Kirk Bayne
The LD, Beta HiFi & VHS HiFi releases are regular SQ encoded stereo (the LD has both CD format digital audio and CX encoded analog audio).
The DVD used the LD master videotape (SQ encoded stereo), it was decoded by a Tate SQ decoder and the output fed to both DD and DTS encoders to produce DD 4.0 and DTS 4.0 soundtracks.
Kirk Bayne
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/best-b...eo-head-cleaner-black/6463812.p?skuId=6463812
I found this wandering thru Best Buy recently, I bought several since I use (thrift shop purchased) VCRs to record from the digital TV reruns channels (some programs are Dolby Surround encoded) every day.
Kirk Bayne
I have the MFSL CD and although it's not overly bright, I wouldn't say that it's muddy sounding. Just wondering if you are listening to the HiFIi audio or just the linear sound track?I got the VHS tape a few weeks back and gave it a go tonight. The tape looked virtually unplayed and it had all of the inserts included. All looked unused. But the audio was somewhat muddy sounding. I haven’t viewed the video portion yet, but I suspect that it will match up with the “low-fi” audio portion quite well. Being VHS and all. Probably has to do with the way they duplicated them back in the day. Probably would had better quality if produced near the end of the VHS run in the marketplace.
It decoded well enough though and after I got it all dialed in I could enjoy it......even with the cruddy sound. The weird thing though is sometimes when the orange balance light would light up on the Tate, the audio would cut out for a split second in some of the channels. That has never happened on anything else, and usually means that everything is dialed in right. Thoughts?
Yes but is it a HiFi VHS deck?Well it’s a stereo VHS tape and I am running it straight into the Tate. The deck even has meters, so I can see that it’s outputting both channels. It just doesn’t sound that great is all.
Yes but is it a HiFi VHS deck?
Beta HiFi machines were stereo but only had mono audio on the linear audio track. VHS had some stereo machines that weren't HiFi. The linear audio track on both VHS and Beta was not that good, perhaps worse than cassette sound. The Hifi audio was done with a carrier like FM radio and sounded very good, rivalling CD sound. So I suspect that either your VHS is not HiFi or it is HiFi but the sound is (perhaps) set to play the linear audio track. Don't expect very good sound in that case.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/394012796362?epid=9046028330&hash=item5bbcfe25ca:g:eNYAAOSwUL9iR3iS
This is the DVD I have (also have the SQ encoded LD and Beta HiFi)
Kirk Bayne
One thing about consumer video tape formats: audio wasn’t a priority intil the “hi-fi” additions came along. The audio spec isn’t far off of the cassette spec in terms of tape speed and track width. They are recorded on the top edge in both Beta and VHS, and are subject to stray magnetic fields like you get from speakers and CRT TVs.Yeah I have some of those laying around. I don’t think that the head is dirty as there are no dropouts.....it just has no punch and the recording level sounds somewhat low. I even tried it on another VCR and it is the same. Probably they used low quality tape back then and combined with the high speed duplication......well it is what it is. And the VCR I am using is a nice Mitsubishi SVHS deck with “Perfectape” which did ‘something’. Not really sure what though. The innards look near pristine but I will clean the heads to be sure.
How does the LD sound Kirk?
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