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Re: 90s shows in poor sound

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SimonJan 24, 2013
 

 
Maybe it's a technology thing. These days bottom end technology can record pretty well, but back then compact cassette was the mainstay with computers capable of mixing audio. In the effort to bring equipment prices down, quality and durability did too, and maybe some of the hobbyists recording these shows didn't have the cash to upgrade their equipment to anything better.

Or possibly someone was faced with a large collection of tapes and no space some time back and dumped them to computer at a time when acceptable recording standards weren't what they are now.

I have a couple of tapes of 90s radio shows (not JAM) in my attic back home, should I dig them out and see if I can digitise them?

--- In just-a-minute@..., "InnerRevolution7" wrote:
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> Another valid point. With so many well-reasoned theories that appear to hold some water, I'm starting to get the feeling it may not be any one of these things on their own... but more likely a converging of these factors that put the 90's shows at risk. What we do know from experience is, if more people had been capturing them, and if at least a few of these people were using better capturing methods and larger file sizes, the better sounding versions would have won out here and there over time. It makes sense to me that a number of things
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> I agree with what you say about Kenneth dying. The first few seasons after Humph died, I quit capturing ISIHAC, and only listened to a couple of the shows randomly. On some level it just felt like they were wrong to continue. It was too soon for me. Once I started enjoying it again, I quickly caught up on all the episodes I had missed out on. But that was in a much later era when (luckily for me) everyone was file sharing nice, high quality versions.
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> Bad sounding or not, it makes me start to appreciate that without whoever did the low quality JAM recordings that we DO have, we might have lots of unfortunate gaping holes in the 90's. Thank you, mystery low quality archive JAM-lover person. :)
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> --- In just-a-minute@..., "Philip Fitchett" wrote:
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> > Is it not just that fewer people were listening and recording these shows when they were first broadcast? You often seem to hear Nick say something to the effect of “When Kenneth died, people thought the show would die with him.” With hindsight we now know that it didn't, mainly due to Paul coming in, but it took a while for him to really establish himself. Kenneth had been such a mainstay of the show over the years, some may have stopped listening for a while altogether. These unsteady shows with Wendy Richard and Lance Percival are now just in the interim but perhaps at the time people saw them as being the last gasps of a flagging show? Just a thought.
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