Hey Reggie. Like you, I'd love a Dolby encoder plugin and a decoder plug in too for duplication and conversion work. I've played around a lot with rescuing encoded Dolby tapes that simply wont track the Dolby any more. Being able to do it in digital would be so much faster plus you could keep tweaking until you got it right, with no need to wear the tape out while making adjustments in analog.Oh yeah, of course it's top secret...
I'm interested in a digital encoder because I actually do make digital (CD-ROM) masters for mass tape duplication, and it would save a lot of time vs real-time encoding. I have my doubts that your supposed decoding methods would be all that accurate, but I see now you are full of beans anyway, so nevermind.
It probably isn't as I have to correct tape degration usually without a reference. I even tweak the decoding parameters for each recording by ear. The point is, I don't get those Dolby'itis effects with this method. Slight deviations to the original recording is a small price to pay, as it is still more true to it than all those many compressed-to-death CD's around.I have my doubts that your supposed decoding methods would be all that accurate
BTW the M Audio Audiophile 192 did well. It really does have a frequency response out to 80 khz or so, and so is useable even for 8x analog high speed conversions, both ways. Thanks for the tip. I'm using Wavelab 6 Studio for the 176000hz sample rate.
Tim
I still don't get why all the secrecy. Is this really something that is keeping you above the competition on this board?LogicDeLuxe said:It probably isn't as I have to correct tape degration usually without a reference. I even tweak the decoding parameters for each recording by ear. The point is, I don't get those Dolby'itis effects with this method. Slight deviations to the original recording is a small price to pay, as it is still more true to it than all those many compressed-to-death CD's around.