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by motohagiography 1850 days ago
> It also has a tendency to make cymbals sound "washy" or "underwater", which all lossy codecs do to some degree, but MP3 is especially bad.

Thank you for confirming this! I record my analog synths that I play through headphones off an old mixing board, however when it comes through my ADC->iPad, stuff seems to get lost and I spend time adjusting the mix and ADSR for recording. Have been seriously mulling a reel to reel, but many others have had the same idea and the market prices are astronomical.
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KozmoNau7 1850 days ago
It's not inherent to straight uncompressed PCM audio, it's strictly an artifact of lossy compression. A reel-to-reel tape deck will be noisier and extremely cumbersome compared to proper digital recording.

Recording should be done at 96kHz 24-bit or higher, to not have to meticulously optimize recording levels and to allow room for mixing and effects, without raising the noise floor to noticable levels.

Convert to normal CD quality as the last step before distribution.

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