[access-uk] Re: Converting tapes to digital?

Andy, I wasn't going to comment, but if it is high quality cassette to
digital transfers you want,then you have to go to some trouble.

First off you need a cassette deck where the playback headcan be
adjusted for azimuth easily.  Some of the Nakamichi decks had this
facility, but then again, some decks allowed of fairly easy cranking
of the head via use of a small, preferably non-magnetic, screw driver.
Another area is adjustment of treble level to get Dolby tracking
right, which can certainly help curemuffly recordings - along with
azymuth adjustment.

With a lot of stereo recordings though phase/asymuth adjustment can be
corrected in software and there are one or two not too exspensive
packages that'l do this, but how accessible they'd be is another
question.

All this is rather a council of perfection really, and its not for
nothing - in the literal sense too - that some people offer
professional cassette to digital transfer.

Cheers,


From Ray
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Of Andy Logue


Hi Andy.

No mate.  I've always ended up disappointed with cassette to computer
transfers.  The end result always sounds muffled.  It may be that I'm
used
now to CD quality and just cannot stand cassette.  I'm afraid that any
recording of cassette or lp will need to been real time and via
line-in
which makes it a time consuming process and the quality is almost
always
disappointing.  I suppose you'd be better using something like WINMX
to
search and download the album in question.  This may prove quicker but
the
quality will be the same.

Best wishes.

Andy.


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