Ah! In other words, you probably wouldn't really have cared exactly what the bit rate was 'cause you would have re-ripped it to your preferred format.
I do hope you enjoy the CD quality. Personally, the most emotionally intense moment of the filk publishing hobby was when the digital conversion of the masters came back from the company that salvaged the last remaining set of (mold-caked) tapes (which I'd spent at least a hundred hours over 3 years trying to track down, with help from many other people). I remembered listening to "Ladyhawke" and just lost it crying hearing all the detail in the music that only a handful of people were able to hear before, and to realize by what a slender thread it didn't happen.
On the flip side, Michael (the producer) was disappointed: all of the original Beta masters were lost or ruined, and we only had a 2nd generation, 15 ips safety backup to work with. So the digital mastering (which was quite unusual for 1986) was lost.
Anyway, I'm in Holland here so it's late. Good night!
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I do hope you enjoy the CD quality. Personally, the most emotionally intense moment of the filk publishing hobby was when the digital conversion of the masters came back from the company that salvaged the last remaining set of (mold-caked) tapes (which I'd spent at least a hundred hours over 3 years trying to track down, with help from many other people). I remembered listening to "Ladyhawke" and just lost it crying hearing all the detail in the music that only a handful of people were able to hear before, and to realize by what a slender thread it didn't happen.
On the flip side, Michael (the producer) was disappointed: all of the original Beta masters were lost or ruined, and we only had a 2nd generation, 15 ips safety backup to work with. So the digital mastering (which was quite unusual for 1986) was lost.
Anyway, I'm in Holland here so it's late. Good night!