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Re: 90s shows in poor sound

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InnerRevolution7Jan 24, 2013
 

 
Hmm, wow. That is an exciting thought. Maybe this will be the next way we get lucky with, if not all, at least some of the missing and/or low quality JAM eps.

--- In just-a-minute@..., "Simon B Kelly" wrote:
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> Although high quality recordings of the nineties shows may not be circulating amongst fans, I'm sure they all still exist in broadcast quality inside the BBC archive. We just need the Beeb to share them with us, like they've done with Desert Island Discs and Letter from America.
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> In fact, their most recent project has been to upload over 70,000 programmes from the BBC World Service audio archive:
> http://worldservice.prototyping.bbc.co.uk/
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> As JAM was regularly broadcast on the World Service, I wonder if it's included? I don't suppose anyone here is one of the beta testers?
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> Simon
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> --- In just-a-minute@..., "Simon" wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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?
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> > --- 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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