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Digitisation of Music IASA Technical Committee Standards, Recommended Practices and Strategies IASA TC04 Second Edition Equipment: tools and connections Sound cards Easy to connect (Firewire) and has a low noise level Supports the

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Digitisation of Music

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IASA Technical Committee Standards, Recommended Practices and Strategies IASA‐TC04 Second Edition

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Equipment: tools and connections

Sound cards

Easy to connect (Firewire) and has a low noise level Supports the International standard sample rate “24‐bit/96 kHz” Built‐in phono preamp input (RCA) for direct turntable connection

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Equipment: tools and connections

Playback devices

Link between the source and the destination

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Equipment: tools and connections

Cables and connections Use Balanced cables

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Equipment: tools and connections

Software

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Audio carriers

Categories of Audio carriers:

1. Mechanical carriers

Coarse groove records

(shellacs)

Acetate records

(Aluminum base covered with Nitrocellulose lacquer)

Micro groove records

(vinyls, LPs, singles)

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Stylus 1 Stylus 2 Stylus 3

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2. Magnetic tapes
Reels & Cassette tapes

print‐through Vinegar syndrome Mold Tape breaking

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The other factors related to instability

f mechanical carriers and retrievability
f information can be summarized as :

Humidity and Temperature Mechanical deformation dust and dirt of all kinds

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Preparing the carrier for recording

Record Cleaning Playback (cleaning)

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Preparing magnetic tapes for recording

Spooling ‐ rewinding Splicing – add leader tape, repair any breaks

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Recording – digital transfer

Recording and Playback Levels

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SAVING

Always save file as a wave file “.wav”

(Uncompressed)

Do not save as mp3 (all mp3 files are compressed) Make as many backup files as possible Store digital files on more on your server and send

to a back‐up server/portable hard drive

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