The Lofi Magic of VHS Audio [video]
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The Lofi Magic of VHS Audio [video]
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#2FYI, I posted this mainly for its description and illustration of the VHS format. The author of the video has very high quality explanations of technical and cultural details of instruments.
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#3This was the first reason I got hooked on Stranger Things.
The music. It reminds me of a time and space I've actually never lived in. And it probably never existed like that. Yet growing up it is very much how I believed North America looked like.
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#4Fun video. I enjoy this angle of hacker news - where it really is somebody going unnecessarily deep into some tech. Not for practical use, but just because it's there.
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#5Chase Bliss did a whole guitar effects pedal based on that concept (Generation Loss): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pq7g_fZWw8
Funnily enough the same channel that made OP video also made a review on that pedal 6 weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaX6WwV_d_s
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#6This was the first reason I got hooked on Stranger Things. The music. It reminds me of a time and space I've actually never lived in. And it probably never existed like that. Yet growing up it is very much how I believed North America looked like.
This is so on the money. I feel they managed to capture exactly how the America of the 80s looked like in people's imagination.
I also feel it is a genuine adventure movie that is told from the perspective of kids, but again exactly how adults will remember their childhood adventure dreams.
There's scary stuff, they don't shy away from showing quite disturbing imagery, but it's never about the shock value.
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#7Techmoan did a video on a format that used VHS tapes to store digital audio:
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#8If anyone was into the band Boards of Canada, this is how they created a lot of their sounds.
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#9Mono only VHS decks were not uncommon (and I wouldnt be surprised to hear that the last VHS decks made were only mono) because mono only pre-produced content - even with NTSC MTS TV Audio, mono only broadcast originated programming was not unusual.
I'd love to see him doing this with the VHS HiFi signals, which were.. IIRC, significantly better than MTS Stereo/FM Stereo (particularly in L/R channel separation) - so basically near CD Audio.
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#10Techmoan did a video on a format that used VHS tapes to store digital audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDCxTtn4OQ
There is a whole (almost) lost history about PCM Adaptors for VTR's.
Sony made some for U-Matic (3/4 in), there were some for VHS, and some that were meant to use other broadcast grade formats.
Also, ADAT, which used a SVHS tape and mechanism to store multi-channel audio