Over the weekend I chanced by the house of a quadraphile friend of mine to check it his SQ setup. For those interested, he has a fairly decent Kenwood linear turntable with what I understand is a rather pricy cartridge manufactured by some company whose name escapes me, hooked into a Fosgate Tate II SQ decoder which is likewise hooked into two X10-D buffers then finally into a Marantz receiver. The whole system sounds absolutely wonderful on SQ records, and on non-SQ records the Tate II decoder has a "wide stereo" mode which makes better use of a quadraphonic setup using a stereo source than I'd ever heard before. He also clued me in on the whole quadraphile SQ vs. CD-4 debate which was discussed here briefly. At any rate, he expressed interest in digitally mastering some of his LPs by first running them through his Fosgate Tate II and the X10-D buffers first and then on into whatever DAC he would be using, at which point he asked me how hard it is to sample from a quadraphonic source. I'm not sure of the answer to this. Is there any relatively inexpensive solution for recording from a quadraphonic source? My only suggestion was to get two sound cards and write a custom program to sample and properly interleave the data, at which point questions about what format to store the output in arise. I suppose wav would work, but afaik the only utility which supports quadraphonic WAVs is sox. So, while it'd be nice to record what people could be hearing if they had their own Fosgate Tate II (which I've been informed have been selling for> $1000 on ebay) is there really support for it? It seems like quite ahassle to me... Tony Arcieri --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Anthony Arcieri wrote:> > Is there any relatively inexpensive > solution for recording from a quadraphonic source? My only suggestion was > to get two sound cards and write a custom program to sample and properly > interleave the data, at which point questions about what format to store > the output in arise. I suppose wav would work, but afaik the only utility > which supports quadraphonic WAVs is sox. >Get two PCs set up recording at once. Pass the two stereo wave files to a single PC. Use the clunk of the stylus hitting the vinyl as a key to match the start of the two samples up manually (with full zoom in Sound Forge or similar this should be easy enough to do). Find something which will merge the samples. -- <\___/> / O O \ \_____/ FTB. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Kerry Milestone wrote:> i haven't managed to start > and stop four seperate processes instantly so that the audio sync is > perfect. there is a small time difference i can't get rid > of... bugger!Can you use a multi-track audio editor? Load each track and lineup visually. Cool Edit Pro for Windows can do this, & can also output to separate soundcards simultaneously when played. Ross. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Just a further thought, with Cool Edit Pro you can time stretch and shrink the entire WAV, so you could line up the WAVs quite accurately by using a sound at the beginning & end of the song. eg. tap the stylus. Ross. Kerry Milestone wrote:> For what its worth, i've been trying to use two soundcards at once and > syncing two instances of oggenc (and decode)....--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.