Too much time + some creativity

[mubs]

Warning: Flash required

Check out this site; I was amazed! Seems tacky the first minute or two, but persevere and ye shall be rewarded.

 

[Mercutio]

Well, it's a much better use of Flash than Badgerbadgerbadger...

 

[Howell]

Lemme guess. I really aught to have speakers hooked up to enjoy it.

 

[CougTek]

Lemme guess. I really aught to have speakers hooked up to enjoy it.

Tell me about it.

 

[Mercutio]

Everybody:

You really need speakers hooked up to enjoy it, Coug.

 

[mubs]

Sorry. Of all the people here, I'm probably running the leanest, oldest config. Even I have speakers (turned off except when required). I assumed everybody else had speakers. And I assumed those that did would turn it on when they saw that it was Flash, and at least when they saw the sound selector thingie.

I assumed wrong. Sorry again.

 

[Mercutio]

My work PC has a board old enough to need a sound card... and it doesn't have one. So I'm part of that contingent as well.

 

[Howell]

I'm in transition and until my workstation is in its permanent position it doesn't have speakers.
The thread remains for future enjoyment.

 

[Computer Generated Baby]

Warning: Flash required

Check out this site; I was amazed! Seems tacky the first minute or two, but persevere and ye shall be rewarded.

I saw (heard) this about --->> 2 <<--- if not closer to 3 years ago. It was only on a Netherlands site for a while, but I downloaded it way back when and have it on one of my external hard drives.

Actually, I had thought of doing something very similar with Sound Forge (using Windows system sounds -- modified and un-modiifed), but never did it. Then, shortly after that idea, I ran into this.

 

[mubs]

CGB, you must have thought it good if you downloaded and saved it. No?

 

[GIANT]

CGB, you must have thought it good if you downloaded and saved it. No?

Yes. I thought it to be clever. "My" idea was to have 3 or 4 movements in something I was going to call "WSS," or The Windows Sound Symphony.

Otherwise, doing this collage was pretty far d.o.w.n my list of priorities to do musically, and, with little free time then (as now), it simply never happened. Nonetheless, I recall being a bit freaked when I saw/heard it, because I had just been seriously thinking about it only a couple of weeks earlier, then... whomp! there this was.

 

[GIANT]

MUBS:

By the way, before my recent hiatus, back when we were talking about the Aphex Aural Exciter, you were mentioning some one-of-a-kind cassette tapes that you have, which contained some amount of noise / hiss as well as poor audio qualities.

I could process a cassette or two using my Aphex Aural Exciter unit -- gratis -- if you could send me about a CD's worth or so of cassette audio material and a couple of dollars for return postage.

The Aphex unit I have is not the one I pasted a picture of in that hijacked thread on MP3s. The one I use doesn't look as pretty as the new silvery "basic" Aphex Aural exciter (Model 204), so that's why I posted a picture of it instead of mine. Mine is the "older" Model 250 Aural Exciter Type III, which is the full-blown professional Aphex Aural Exciter.

Aural Exciter Model 204

Aural Exciter "Type III" Model 250

http://www.aphex.com/250.htm

I believe you were inquiring about its noise reduction capability. I really haven't done much with its noise reduction capabilities, but what I've found is that it's sort of hit'n'miss depending on what the noise actually is. If it's pure tape hiss, it can and will do a pretty good job with these sort of fixed source noises -- far better even than just using 1/3 octave equalising or notching approaches.

The Type III processes out noise before it fiddles around with adding zing to the dominant content. The bigger bolder zingy content will then further mask over the remaining noise. It's about the closest thing to a standalone "magic box" there is. T.C. Electronics' PowerCore would be the closest and only real competitor to the Aphex Aural Exciter Model 250.

 

[mubs]

That is a very kind and generous offer, Giant, thank you very much! May I take a raincheck for now? I've moved twice in the last 3 years and my tapes are in a box in storage and I have no idea which box!

The problem is actually more a lack of the missing fizz than hiss. I have a cheapo BSR equalizer I bough from DAK (anybody know this one?) around 1987 that works ok, but for the purposes of improving my tapes brightens the sound too much.

The tapes made in the seventies and eighties are missing fizz and also have hiss. The tapes I've made after 1988 have no hiss at all because they were recorded with a Yamaha cassette deck with DBx on; awesome quality. But because the source was a cheapo PA system with low quality mics, the harmonics are all mostly missing.

I didn't buy the Aphex in the late eighties 'cause I couldn't afford it (still can't right now). But someday I will!

 

[Fushigi]

I have a cheapo BSR equalizer I bough from DAK (anybody know this one?) around 1987 that works ok, but for the purposes of improving my tapes brightens the sound too much.

Drew A. Kaplan. Sorta published a catalog of stuff he liked. Or so was the spin. Think of it as a different spin on the Sharper Image catalog, only less expensive. I used to get that in college. Don't remember if I ever bought anything from them. I also vaguely remember the BSR name (Better Sound Reproduction?); I think my dorm roommate bought a BSR something. Almost 20 years ago; barely remember it at all.

 

[mubs]

I used to get DAK's catalog regularly (must have got my name/add from some of the audio mags I subscribed to those days). I even lived close to their business for a while. I'll never forget Drew because he's one of the best spinmeisters I have ever come across. His command of language, and ability to appeal to emotions was incredible. His business kind of disappeared rather suddenly; don't know what happened. The BSR equilizer was the only thing I ever bought from them. I used to read the catlog cover to cover, if only to marvel at the skills of this man in presenting the stuff he was selling.

 

[i]

I used to get DAK's catalog regularly (must have got my name/add from some of the audio mags I subscribed to those days). I even lived close to their business for a while. I'll never forget Drew because he's one of the best spinmeisters I have ever come across. His command of language, and ability to appeal to emotions was incredible. His business kind of disappeared rather suddenly; don't know what happened. The BSR equilizer was the only thing I ever bought from them. I used to read the catlog cover to cover, if only to marvel at the skills of this man in presenting the stuff he was selling.

None of you saw me here.

That said, here's your answer mubs, plus his current exploits.

 

[CityK]

None of you saw me here.

Hey, hey!!

 

[Howell]

I have a cheapo BSR equalizer I bough from DAK (anybody know this one?) around 1987 that works ok, but for the purposes of improving my tapes brightens the sound too much.

Drew A. Kaplan. Sorta published a catalog of stuff he liked. Or so was the spin. Think of it as a different spin on the Sharper Image catalog, only less expensive. I used to get that in college. Don't remember if I ever bought anything from them. I also vaguely remember the BSR name (Better Sound Reproduction?); I think my dorm roommate bought a BSR something. Almost 20 years ago; barely remember it at all.

The speaker system I meantioned in this thread two years ago was purchased from DAK in about 1988. As well as the same speaker system for my parents and a BSR brand CD player. I think they still have the cd player

 

[mubs]

i! Good to see you again (though you used to make my head spin with i, me, etc.).

I'm becoming senile. It never occurred to me to try dak.com. I'll be damned. I haven't read the story yet, but will as soon as I get off SF.

Live long and prosper, i.

 

[Howell]

Oh yeah, and our 386SX16 was a BSR.

 

[LunarMist]

I don't have Flash and the last set of speakers was discarded about five years ago. I am almost afraid to ask about the subject. Would it be deemed offensive to sensitive viewers?