Nenuphar wrote:

> I am unfamiliar with the TLH format.
> So far the torrents were in the FLAC format.
> Am I missing something ?

The line:

SBD > Toshiba Ext Sound card > Audacity > CDwav > TLH

Describes the source and method of producing the files for downloading.

So, SBD means it's a soundboard recording, which was captured via a Toshiba
sound card. The characteristics of the sound (volume, channel balance, etc)
were controlled via a program called Audacity and turned into WAV files
(audio files) via another program called CDwav, and then encoded to FLAC via
TLH, which stands for Traders Little Helper - http://tlh.easytree.org. TLH
can also be used to decompress the FLAC files back to WAV. TLH is a reliable
and neat little bit of software, and very useful too.

If the recording had been an audience recording rather than a soundboard,
then the "source" line might have been along the lines of:

AUD > schoepsMK4 > reutelhuber power supply > denonDTR80p > Toshiba sound
card > Audacity > CDwav > TLH. 1st row balcony, aisle seats left of the SBD

This means that the recording was an audience recording captured using
Schoeps MK4 stereo microphones using a Reutelhuber power supply (don't
really know the significance of this, but it's probably something to do with
boosting the signal via a pre-amplifier) into a Denon DTR 80 portable DAT
recorder, and from there to a PC where the encoding to FLAC would be carried
out as in the previous example. The taper has also specified their position
so that listeners can get a better idea of the sound.

HTH (hope that helps).

CJ