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Re: Detecting Dolby B encoding on cassettes [message #14019 is a reply to message #14018]

Fri, 01 August 2008 11:16

Wayne Parham
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Dolby B is really just treble pre-emphasis with automatic gain control. I've noticed a lot of store bought tapes from the seventies were so cheap they didn't have much HF extension, so the pre-emphasis was lost. My suggestion is to test them by ear, because even if you know a tape was recorded with Dolby B, if the tape doesn't have much on it above 10kHz, I don't think I'd want the Dolby B decoder to take away what little was left.

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