OT: just for those intersted about analog tape

[Bill Vermillion]

On Fri, Jan 07 09:13 , GCC Consulting moved his mouse, rebooted for the 
change to take effect, and then said:" 

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> > Of John Esak
> > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:39 PM
> > To: Fplist (E-mail)
> > Subject: RE: just for those intersted about analog tape
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> > > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Bill 
> > > Campbell
> > > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:55 PM
> > > To: Filepro-List
> > > Subject: Re: just for those intersted about analog tape
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005, Henry Melancon wrote:
> > >
> > > >I guess that will make my 30 year Akai a big door stop!  I think I 
> > > >got to reels of Maxell tape never opened.......
> > >
> > > I need to fix the 10.5in adapters for my Revox A77 so I can 
> > try to rip 
> > > some tapes to one of my Apples, or find a service that will do that 
> > > for me (very carefully as the tapes haven't been used in years).
> > 
> > You got that right. When I finally converted all my old tapes 
> > to files, I could literally hear/see the coating flaking off 
> > in big chunks. The table top was a mess. The screaching was 
> > horrible. EVERY single splice I had between songs broke!  It 
> > was a horrendous month of getting it all done. I'm so glad it 
> > is over...
> > 
> > John

> I have a sony reel-to-reel and about a dozen tapes dating back
> to the late 50's.

> One of the tapes has the top 100 songs of 195?, Really don't
> remember which year but it was after 1956. These are mono tapes
> as they were recorded off of AM radio.

> I really should re-record these to cassette and then rip them.

That's a double analog step and will give you a minimum of
a 3db worse signal to noise ratio.  And unless you have a
cassette player in the high-end range, Revox, Nakamichi, Eumig,
then you are going to audio qualitiy in addition to the higher
noise level.

All the audio cards I've worked with have an audio input and it
would be far more sensible IMO to connect your Sony to the card
and go directly to audio files.

Bill
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