Day 290: Ing. Gottwald to the rescue
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Vienna 1971—A Student Journal
A year of music, study, travel, sightseeing &
friends.
Day
290 — Ing. Gottwald to the rescue
18-May-1972
(Donnerstag–Thur.)
TRANSCRIPT
Slightly better day.
In morning, Ing. Gottwald helped me make a good copy
of my work in the schallplatten studio, with a much
more elaborate filter. Unfortunately, the copy is for
Prof. Kaufmann and I’m stuck with only a 19cm copy,
which I already half-wrecked by entangling the tape.
My horn lessons and playing with piano went fairly
good today. Playing later with Dr. Paul—didn’t do too
well.
REFLECTIONS
Ing.
Gottwald. When you
have quality problems from the day before, what do
you do? Call an engineer. Engineer Gottwald helps me
to make a good copy of Fantasy
on Broken Glass in the
better recording studio, which seems to have better
equipment. Schallplatten = recording. Perhaps this is
a radio station or recording studio somewhere else, I
don’t remember. Unfortunately, there is only one
master copy of the tape for Prof. Kaufmann (to play
at concert). Remember that my original tapes had
many, many, physical tape splices in them. It’s
amazing that it played at all.
Analog
quality and tape hiss. The
quality issue is most likely “tape hiss.” Remember,
here it is, I am manipulating sounds on analog tape,
repeatedly—over and over again. Each generation
reduces the quality of the sound and increases the
tape hiss. If you try to reduce the tape hiss, you
cut out too much of the higher frequencies, leaving
the sound dull and less bright. So, I am thankful
that I have any result with a normally good output.
It is amazing that it worked at all. Thanks to Ing.
Gottwald.
2009—7
Year Anniversary. Today is
the 7th anniversary of my part-time job at a computer
retail store. I was one of the original openers of
the store and I love their products. (It paid the
kids’ car insurance for all those years.) My real day
job is in publishing. How’s that for a surprise look
at my personal life?
John
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