now i’m excited

bret just pushed a file to my drop box to compare the dolby noise reduction versus no dolby noise reduction on some old tapes that he is digitizing for the haller bros. music archive. i’m going to end up going throught the raw tracks and mastering them. rather than firing up the system 9 machine that i have for running cubase and all my other audio apps, i opened this file with garage band on my 1 gigahertz imac. i had played around with the os x built-in audio unit plugs before, (they are part of the system’s audio architecture) but always sort of toying around during tracking, not critical listening. they sound GOOD. the interface is pure dogshit to look at, but who cares. they work.