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Absolutely Jules! I wish the "beautiful women thread" had more photos of beautiful women. Strippers, chavs and hoochie mamas aren't exactly what I would think of when I think of beautiful women. Here is another Marilyn photo I always liked from long before Hollywood turned her into an object.

Congratulations! She's a little bit of sunshine She's a smile to light our days She will steal our hearts and keep them With her warm endearing ways She's our precious little daughter With a sweetness from above Who will fill our years with laughter And our lives with lots of love.

Don't stay too long up there in grungeville. You know it's the suicide capitol of the country don't you?

Cool as a cucumber here in SoCal--- best overall weather in the USA glad to say.

Yeah it's like passing through an EQ and pushing some of harmonics in such a way to 'brighten' the audio and roll off some of the noise as you spit the native track through different channels. But like I said, with a mono cassette or even one from a stereo recorder with mic placement being what it is, there are limits to the output. For example: when taking a mono track and simulating stereo all you are doing is splitting to two channels and then shifting the phase in order to simulate the aural perspective you hear with stereo.

Well the tape machine I was showing is a video tape machine and only 4 channel AES audio. I'm not a sound engineer but I believe that the answer in general is that just like film photography the quality of the "image/recording" depends mostly on the best capture of the content with the technology limitations of the 'recording device' used to their best capability. The information on the tape usually isn't improved much beyond what you have; however with modern digital technology some enhancements are possible. For example a mono recording can be processed in order to simulate the sound separation perceived in a stereo recording. There are also ways to attempt to process out and isolate "noise" but that too has limits. For example: the drum peddle squeak heard on the studio recording of SIBLY is basically (to my understanding) part of that recording and unable to be isolated out of the other tracks as the other parts were mixed into the drum track-- but I may be wrong and I'm sure SAJ may have that answer. Like I said, I'm not a sound engineer, but the answer is yes and no. Yes you can transfer a sound image to another format that has more ways to process that information, but in the end it is still the information you are stuck with from the original master that you have to work with.

Oh they are still around and some edit facilities still used them up to a few years ago for mastering of animated features before HD became the standard. Now they are pretty much just considered a legacy format used to for transferring old content to file based content like Prores 422 HQ and JPEG-2000 for archiving. I just thought I would include the photos because they are 'cassette based' tapes as opposed to open reel tape formats like 2in. I'm sure it has been discussed here someplace but the Zep bootlegger Mike Millard used a high quality cassette machine to nick a few concerts in his day. What Millard achieved with such a limited format as consumer audio cassette tape was remarkable. Millard must have been reading Jimmy's interviews when it came to good mic placement and proper saturation of magnetic tape because he did a pretty good job given the obvious limitations of the tape format he used.

To the question of this thread by the OP: Not all decisions are meant to be for the public, sometimes decisions are made based only on the people who need to make them. Sort of like when someone decides that another go at the all you can eat buffet after having had two plate fulls already is probably not a difficult decision for most people. Yeah, it's like that.

Check out this old tape machine. D-1 Sony component (uncompressed 4:2:2) digital video from circa mid '80s. These babies cost around $150,000 each but were pinnacle of mastering formats at the time. Here is a large sized cassette from this format. Check out the scale because these cassettes are much larger than your laptop in size.

I saw someone get a ticket this morning for not slowing down in a school zone. I know the ticket will probably cost the fool at least $500 dollars.

I got a great deal on 1500 rounds of military surplus ammo (9mm) today from a buddy.

Some of the funniest shit on the internets are the edits made to the bat shit crazy site Wikipedia.

Back in 1976 my high school biology teacher was a hot thing. About 5'3" tall and liked to wear tight skirts, sweaters and boots. After her husband stepped out on her and she threw him out she was showing signs of going off the rails. At first she was depressed and came to school wearing no make up and hair in a mess. Later I think she got over him and then started down that path of dressing really hot and wanting attention---- she didn't seem to mind the attention of a bunch of horny young high school boys. ... if I only knew then what I knew now. Just didn't have the skill sets to take the leap and do what really needed to be done---- for her and for me. Sigh... Here in socal the day of the dead thing seems to go on for about a week. I don't mind because all the latinas at work keep bringing in enchilladas and other treats.

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Lighten up Francis! I was just being amusingly sarcastic. I've got no problem with Halloween other than I'm now old so I turn all the lights off and hope no little bastards ring my doorbell.