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Gain staging in a small studio: dBFS, dBu and where headroom actually lives
A practical way to read dBu, dBFS and alignment specifications without mistaking a nominal reference for a universal recording target.
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Baerwald, Löfgren and Stevenson: how each alignment distributes tracking error
A pivoted tonearm cannot remain perfectly tangent to a record groove from the outer edge to the run-out. Baerwald/Löfgren A, Löfgren B and Stevenson are different methods of deciding where unavoidable tracking-angle error is reduced—and where more of it is accepted.
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A Digital Credit Is Not Enough: What Metadata Standards Can Actually Prove
Metadata can retain and move information about a recording session, but a visible credit does not automatically become historical proof. Here is how to read DDEX RIN, community documentation and release-specific sources when asking who did what on a record.
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