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yadj · 1st December 2009

Thanks everyone.

Reamping and recording to tape is certainly a thought and I would be tempted to give it a go in one sense, but I guess I'm coming at it from a 'theoretical' digital point of view. Them stubborn in the box people! Good suggestion though as miking a speaker would certainly make it authentic!

Rob, good points again. I also raised the concern of enduring a whole film's worth of dated sound as a 2 minute skit is one thing, but watching an hour and a half ragtime special is another deal. Last night I looked for some other reference material to help.... the original 50's series of the Fugitive (much more bass and pleasant resonant distortion in the voices), and even older actually, some some choice laurel and hardy which had surprisingly good sound. I think a bit of a hybrid is in order.

Interesting you mentioned about the optical pops and clicks though... I knew my distortion wasn't right, but I didn't know what it was. I'll have a hunt round and see what I can come up with.

Here's another question for people if you're keen. On a record player, music would often have a warble to it from a bump in the record. When you listen to old film music, they also had a warble but it didn't seem as regular as would be generated by a record spinning at a set speed. Again, Speakerphone comes to the rescue as it has a 'wow' section and you can even LFO the aspects of it to break it's repetitiveness, but just wondering what people knew about old film music and how it would have been played back??

Thanks again in advance.

1st December 2009	#7
yadj Gear interested Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 7 Thread Starter	Thanks everyone. Reamping and recording to tape is certainly a thought and I would be tempted to give it a go in one sense, but I guess I'm coming at it from a 'theoretical' digital point of view. Them stubborn in the box people! Good suggestion though as miking a speaker would certainly make it authentic! Rob, good points again. I also raised the concern of enduring a whole film's worth of dated sound as a 2 minute skit is one thing, but watching an hour and a half ragtime special is another deal. Last night I looked for some other reference material to help.... the original 50's series of the Fugitive (much more bass and pleasant resonant distortion in the voices), and even older actually, some some choice laurel and hardy which had surprisingly good sound. I think a bit of a hybrid is in order. Interesting you mentioned about the optical pops and clicks though... I knew my distortion wasn't right, but I didn't know what it was. I'll have a hunt round and see what I can come up with. Here's another question for people if you're keen. On a record player, music would often have a warble to it from a bump in the record. When you listen to old film music, they also had a warble but it didn't seem as regular as would be generated by a record spinning at a set speed. Again, Speakerphone comes to the rescue as it has a 'wow' section and you can even LFO the aspects of it to break it's repetitiveness, but just wondering what people knew about old film music and how it would have been played back?? Thanks again in advance.