A true audio Genius ! He is to movie audio what Henry Ford was to the automobile.
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Yes, he was a real pioneer even into the digital age. He was immortalized in Rob Reiner's film "This Is Spinal Tap" when Jeanine (girlfriend) tells the guys that she thinks their album was engineered wrong.
Jeanine: "You don't do heavy metal in dubly." Nigel: "In what? In what? In dubly?" Jeanine: "In dubly. You can't..." David: "She means dolby, all right?"
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I don't have the tech knowledge to figure it out, but have often wondered just how much he contributed beyond converting RCA's incredible Disney Fantasia tube, analog delayed multi-channel system to the digital age. No mean feat to be sure, but ground breaking innovator? I'm not so sure.
GM
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Dolby B Noise Reduction System in my Nakamichi 582 Compact Cassette Recorder meant I could make a copy of a new LP record for top quality everyday playback. My previous recorders(HiFi) made inferior copies.
Nakamichi really nailed the bass, Dolby cleaned up the hiss. A bonus is that most of my 'vinyl' is in mint condition.
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IMHO When you see so many Dolby decoders,encoders in so much equipment these days you have to agree.He has done something right.I don't have the tech knowledge to figure it out, but have often wondered just how much he contributed beyond converting RCA's incredible Disney Fantasia tube, analog delayed multi-channel system to the digital age. No mean feat to be sure, but ground breaking innovator? I'm not so sure.
GM
No, I don't. This is like saying that Amar Bose was a great innovator because he used digital EQ to make a crappy little sealed cube single driver the foundation of the world's best selling speaker system.
As for Dolby's noise reduction, I don't know if RCA's system included any type of analog solution, but it never much impressed me as it took too much 'life' out of the recording. Now the folks that figured out how to digitally remove the hiss, pops, clicks of vinyl without seriously effecting a recording's sonics gets my vote though.
GM
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Originally Posted by mah
i'm sure that the nak is much above average.
compared the nakamichi and other cassette decks side by side in the early - mid 80's .
compared dolby too.
i don't have anything good to say about dolby.
agreed, 100%.
bose and dolby may have well started out to make music reproduction more like music.
we should note that they did so on other peoples dime(s).
those types want some kind of return.
the result is Bose? and dolby?
like this -
guns kill people,
like spoons made rush limbaugh,
fat ....
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That is how it's done today with many more microphones one per 2 instruments. The whole 96 inputs of the mixer are used.
Once recorded sent to the dubbing stage in 7.1 format and also in the pro tools stem format.Via wave files.
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