That's an excellent explanation, Chris. I'm looking forward to hearing Robin's
set.

Meanwhile, can anyone tell me what ditty wah ditty means?

Simon

:-)

--- In ISB@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Jones" <chris@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>