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Old 07-12-2007, 06:22 PM
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Default Distorted recording - what type?

An acquaintance lent me a home recorded c.d. to copy.

I have no information about the original medium, it may have been audio cassette.

Viewing the .wav file in CoolEdit reveals assymetric waveforms on both left and right channels.

It's as if there was a d.c. component present, the positive excursions are noticeably greater than the negative excursions.

I haven't seen this before and wonder what type of distortion this is. Does anyone know?




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Can you post a picture of the waveform and one of the songs?
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I edited my first post to include a link to a picture.

It works for me.

I'll do it again here

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