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Rapcore
Please stop doing shallow redirects. Rapcore and nu metal are quite different, and rap metal is closer to the former. --Baxtaba 20:26, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

High (Type II) or Metal (Type IV) bias tapes
Hi

I'm not sure about the revisions you've made to analog sound vs. digital sound. I'll put them here for clarity:

'Some analog-analog copy or regeneration yields inferior quality, especially for standard consumer-grade equipment. However in the field of audio tapes, Type II and IV were created to and do prevent any loss and can (in some cases) sound better then the original source.'

The original:

'Each analog-analog copy or regeneration yields inferior quality, especially for standard consumer-grade equipment.'

I think the point is that once a recording is stored as digital information, it can be copied without any loss of information. This is not true of analog systems. Certainly high-quality analog systems exist, but they are unable to create absolutely identical copies.

Secondly, the addition to line 30:

'However, when recording audio tapes of the High (Type II) or Metal (Type IV) bias, sound can be exactly duplicated with minimum to no distortion.'

which was added to -

'In the process of recording, storing and playing back the original sound wave analogy (in the form of an electronic signal), it is unavoidable that some signal degradation will occur. This degradation is in the form of noise and distortion, with the two often inter-related. Noise is unrelated in time to the original signal content, while distortion is in some way related to the original signal content.'

I wrote this introduction with the intention that it applies to both analog and digital systems. You'll always get some noise and distortion in any sound system. Would it be possible to have a new sub-section of 'Noise and distortion', perhaps called 'Analog tape systems'? My idea is that maybe then this info on tape systems could be put there instead. I could maybe add some info on other, high-quality (optical) analog audio systems there, like Dolby Spectral Recording. Having some info on noise reduction would certainly add to the article's content. Enescot 15:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Hello again


 * I loooked this up in the Britannica, and it has some information on tape performance:


 * 'At the high-frequency end of the spectrum the weakest link is still the cassette. While many decks can claim a frequency response (+/- 3 dB) to 18 000 Hz and a few go to 20 000 Hz or slightly beyond, the response measurement in this case is made at a low (-20 dB) signal level. At a 0-dB recording level even premium-quality ferric and chromium dioxide-type cassettes begin to reach tape saturation at about 7 000 Hz; with metal-particle cassettes this high-frequency saturation point is extended nearly an octave higher (14 000 Hz).'


 * 'Studio master tapes can be made with the professional Dolby-A noise-reduction system to approach 80 dB [dynamic range], and the consumer Dolby-C system can raise the measured signal-to-noise figures for cassettes to about 70 or 72 dB. (A different noise-reduction system, dbx, can achieve a dynamic range of nearly 100 dB, but its incompatibility with the widely available Dolby-B and Dolby-C systems has tended to limit its availablity.)'


 * Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition (1989), Volume 27, 'Sound', page 625.


 * I going to edit the article in order to specify these levels of performance. I'm also going to move your entries to make them more in keeping with the existing structure of the article. Enescot 08:32, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Reply to Kafziel...
Thanks for the links I did check them out. Now I know how to link articles and really be sure I'm editing to Wiki standards. Thanks again!

Reply to Enescot...
Sounds fine to me, I just wanted notes on Type II and IV tapes, because most people think of tapes as total crap, when they are rather useful. Thanks for being cool and not a jerk like most people would be. I also appreciate the info. you gave, as I wasn't aware of some of those figures.

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