I don't think we can blame Ogg Vorbis for the quality of the recording.
The original recording was already clipping. That tape has been through the wars and is stretched. When I rigged up a tape deck to re-digitise it it got clipped even more. I sampled it at a really low bit rate and the converted it to the smallest OGG I could.
As a recording, the OGG sounded better that the raw WAV.
(Scary innit?)
Looks like it did what it needed to tho.
(Oh and I prefer to rip in VBR OGG over any other lossy format. They just sound smoother. I know that's because the frequencies are being subtly distorted. Subtly distorted is not a problem as far as I can see. People pay an absolute fortune to build Valve amps to get subtly distorted music that sounds "warmer" than a modern low distortion Transistor amp.)
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I don't think we can blame Ogg Vorbis for the quality of the recording.
The original recording was already clipping. That tape has been through the wars and is stretched. When I rigged up a tape deck to re-digitise it it got clipped even more. I sampled it at a really low bit rate and the converted it to the smallest OGG I could.
As a recording, the OGG sounded better that the raw WAV.
(Scary innit?)
Looks like it did what it needed to tho.
(Oh and I prefer to rip in VBR OGG over any other lossy format. They just sound smoother. I know that's because the frequencies are being subtly distorted. Subtly distorted is not a problem as far as I can see. People pay an absolute fortune to build Valve amps to get subtly distorted music that sounds "warmer" than a modern low distortion Transistor amp.)