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What’s DAT Sound?
My recent posts have touched on endangered analog audio formats (open reel tape and compact cassette) and the challenges involved in digitizing and preserving them. For this installment, we’ll enter...
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Future Retro: Images of Sound Technology in the 1960s Duke Chronicle
Many of my Bitstreams posts have featured old-school audio formats (wax cylinder, cassette and open reel tape, Minidisc) and discussed how we go about digitizing these obsolete media to bring them to...
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Mythical Beasts of Audio
Gear. Kit. Hardware. Rig. Equipment. In the audio world, we take our tools seriously, sometimes to an unhealthy and obsessive degree. We give them pet names, endow them with human qualities, and imbue...
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Two Years In: The Finish Line Approaches for Digitizing Behind the Veil
Behind the Veil Digitization intern Sarah Waugh and Digital Collections intern Kristina Zapfe’s efforts over the past year have focused on quality control of interviews transcribed by Rev.com. This...
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