tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423050459919800481.post1164533850552099993..comments2024-03-04T05:26:22.273-08:00Comments on Propnomicon: Vintage Radio Sound EffectPropnomiconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073463298965255652noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423050459919800481.post-87606768401067714922012-10-09T13:08:15.126-07:002012-10-09T13:08:15.126-07:00@CoastConFan - interesting stuff...I might add tha...@CoastConFan - interesting stuff...I might add that you should also consider your audience when determining how much distortion to use.<br /><br />You can make something sound very historically accurate, but it wouldn't be what people expect. When someone sees an old looking radio, be it a $40 or a $500 one, they expect it to sound old, or what they perceive as old.<br /><br />I find that sometimes I have to balance my need for historical accuracy and what people think history was like in order to draw them into the scene.MikePnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423050459919800481.post-32837596246086881802012-10-09T07:18:29.676-07:002012-10-09T07:18:29.676-07:00That awesome.
Now I need to make a couple cd full...That awesome.<br /><br />Now I need to make a couple cd fulls of 1920s/30s music with news broadcasts mixed in every 20 minutes.<br /><br />Thank you!Alex Kaedahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07465596010271202753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423050459919800481.post-77565339453543886432012-10-09T06:57:01.639-07:002012-10-09T06:57:01.639-07:00Propnomicon can verify this:
Keep in mind that th...Propnomicon can verify this:<br /><br />Keep in mind that the recordings we have are distorted for a couple of reasons. Audio from the 20s and 30s was clipped in the upper and lower ranges compared to what we have now, i.e. it was more midrange. Also electronic amplification on the microphones didn’t really come into it’s own until after 1932 or so. That means people yelled into microphones and into sound recoding devices for records, making for distortion.<br /><br />Secondly, much of what we have are secondary recording. That is to say, the sounds were broadcast over the air, received by a radio (perhaps a poorly tuned one or one of lower quality) and then recoded via wire recorder and the like. The best old time radio shows, as far as reproduction quality are those that were transcribed to disk for later replay. Generally, radio was not copyrighted and was considered a disposable medium, so little survived, and much of what we have today was recorded by amateurs during broadcast<br /><br />Thirdly, outside of records the recording medium would lose quality and playing it back gave in impression that the original broadcast was originally poor. Also consider that there were cheap radios which still cost $40 new, and then there were radios that cost $500 and up! The high end 7 tube radios had excellent sound and superb speakers. Don’t be fooled in to the cliché that old technology was highly inferior and follows a linear track to the present day. High quality radios reproduced exactly the sound from studios. <br /><br />So if you are making a recording to play over radio, let’s say a news broadcast, don’t get too carried away with making it sound bad unless: it’s supposed to be a distant, distorted broadcast over a cheap, badly tuned radio, with terrible atmospherics, then go for it.<br />CoastConFanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07250561260148656254noreply@blogger.com