whats up with this?

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For better and for worse, it's amazing what one ex-Ampex employee has been able to develop and then incorporate into the entire market of consumer and professional audio and film sound:

http://www.dolby.com/about/who_we_are/history_5.html

Page 5 is where it picks up with Dolby SR, introduced in 1986, but there is some interesting discussion on the preceding pages about the earlier Dolby audio processes and the history of film sound and development and marketing of Dolby Stereo.

Cheers,

Otto
 
FALKEN said:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dolby-363-SR-A-...2QQihZ015QQcategoryZ23790QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

is that single ended or something? I dont get how it could be used in "mastering" unless it was........
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The Dolby 363 was/is a popular late model (1990ish) professional Dual/stereo mastering Dolby NR unit. With the 300 cards you can use either Dolby A or SR.

The asking price is delusional though. They were really pricey and out of reach when new, but $1000.00 is just too much. Not that someone won’t pay that much. It only takes one buyer. ;)

For one, a lot of people had complaints about the sound compared to older models. I’ve got an article from an issue of Recording Engineer Producer that talked about issues with clarity and a narrowed soundstage. There are mods for it… if you don’t know how to do them yourself it’ll cost $300.00 or more to have someone do them for you.

I’ve looked at the 363 myself over the last couple years… waiting for the price to come down; it’s only gone up. I was passing on them when they were going for over $350.00 two years ago. Now they are ending over $500.00 sometimes $600.00.

Frankly, unless the price comes down again there just isn’t hundreds of dollars of quality difference between the 363 and my tricked out Sony Dolby C units. SR is the cat’s pajamas but I actually like my Dolby C units better than any A unit I’ve heard.

An outboard Dolby S unit would be cool, but Dolby never licensed it for stand-alone. Someday I’ll find an old Fostex G-16S that has fallen off a truck or something. I can then yank a couple channel cards and build my own Dolby S system for mastering.

Here are some links for further info that I've posted before... but I can't even find my own old posts using the search feature... :o So here they are again:

http://www.dolby.com/assets/pdf/tech_library/212_Dolby_B,_C_and_S_Noise_Reduction_Systems.pdf

http://www.dolby.com/assets/pdf/tech_library/33_SpectralRecordingPaper.pdf

http://www.dolby.com/assets/pdf/tech_library/127_m.br.0104.363onesheet.pdf

~Tim
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Could there value went up cause of all of the mastering going on with older stuff that might have been done with S?
 
FALKEN said:
so its encode/decode then?
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Yep, just like the stand-alone dbx units... only Dolby.

Dolby A is the oldest pro NR. SR is the latest and greatest. Another older popular unit is the Dolby Model 365.

Be careful if shopping for Dolby units, as they made several models for specific machines. For example the Model 380 isn't a generic unit that can be used with anything, unless you have the service manual and considerable hacking skills.
 
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