I posted this some time ago, but now that I have a few blind friends who are involved in programming, and especially the musical side of things, I figured I would try again. To summarise. I want to see if it is possible to make pre-electric recordings sound like early electric ones. So one from 1903 might sound like it came from 1930. I doubt we could go any higher than the 1940's, if that, given the constraints of acoustic recording, but it would still be a huge improvement in sound. Perhaps, with the right software, some frequences can be restored. The trouble is that there are only a few such programs and all are inaccessible with screen readers. I explain things more fully at the below link. Normally, this is a subreddit about opera recordings and singers from the 1950's and earlier, so if you have no clue about this but like opera, feel free to join us in general.

Frequency Restoration in Acoustic Recordings

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldOpera/comments/1oqgz2k/frequency_restoration_in_acoustic_recordings/

#accessibility #AcousticRecordings #Android #AudioRestoration #blind #DigitalRecording #FrequencyRestoration #gramophone #IOS #Linux #MacOS #opera #phonographs #records #software #technology #Windows

One of the world’s first digital recording systems: the Denon DN-023R (1972), an 8-channel system with 13-bit resolution at a sampling rate of 47.25kHz, which recorded onto Hitachi 4-head open-reel broadcast videotape in low-band (black & white) mode (it was cheaper & had fewer dropouts than colour) – seen here with Dr. Takeaki Anazawa, one of the system’s inventors.

#DenonDN023R #DigitalAudio #DigitalRecording #DrTakeakiAnazawa

Death of The Key Change

"So what is going on? Both of the shifts can be tied back to two things: the rise of hip-hop and the growing popularity of digital music production, or recording on computers."

I find it fascinating that cultural and technology changes have created a different soundtrack.

The explanation of the latter makes me a bit uneasy but also leads me to believe that additional advances could create another change.

#Music #DigitalRecording #KeyChange

https://tedium.co/2022/11/09/the-death-of-the-key-change