EdPowers
12-02-2009, 11:35 PM
I've been listening to vinyl for only a year and I was excited to get a copy of Reiner's 1960 Living Stereo performance of Rimsky Korsakoff's Scheherazade. I dropped the stylus onto the lead-in groove, and about one revolution before the first movement starts, I could hear a faint 'pre'-echo of the signal. I pulled out my copy of the same performance on XRCD and didn't hear it, but it might have been edited or cropped off the beginning, or maybe been dampened below the noise threshold.
Is what I'm hearing "tape bleed" from the analog master? Would someone explain how this happens?
Did the tape bleed happen during the original recording in 1960, or after the tape reels have been stored and pulled out to remaster? (Would a first pressing copy have the same problem?)
Would tape bleeding occur throughout the entire recording, or only during certain sections of the tape?
Is this problem exclusive to vinyl pressings?
Have modern recording practices eliminated this issue?
Thanks, any information about it is appreciated.
Is what I'm hearing "tape bleed" from the analog master? Would someone explain how this happens?
Did the tape bleed happen during the original recording in 1960, or after the tape reels have been stored and pulled out to remaster? (Would a first pressing copy have the same problem?)
Would tape bleeding occur throughout the entire recording, or only during certain sections of the tape?
Is this problem exclusive to vinyl pressings?
Have modern recording practices eliminated this issue?
Thanks, any information about it is appreciated.