Thanks Marie. That will be a huge help. I'm hip deep in dats.

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On Sep 11, 2012, at 8:04 PM, Marie O'Connell wrote:

> That paper was written by my then colleague, Tim Bathgate, who presented
> the paper at one of the IASA conferences. I'll ask him to pipe up here!
>
> Cheers
> Marie
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Jim Sam <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> There was a paper published in the last few years in the IASA journal
>> about DAT ripping in DDS drives. Fascinating read. I wasn't totally
>> convinced it's "we have to implement this now!" worthy, but I was
>> going to run some tests before implementing it here on a collection of
>> hundreds of DATs. However, this never happened due to
>> inconsequentially boring internal reasons.
>>
>> Jim Sam
>> Hoover Archives, Stanford
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Matthew Sohn <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>> That whole DAT-extraction thing seems very kludgey. Also, reports seem to
>>>> indicate that few people get it working reliably and use it for large
>>>> collections. I'm sure there are some >experts on-list who do this all
>> the time,
>>>> but that doesn't seem common. For a small or medium-sized collection
>> (fewer than
>>>> a few hundred DATs), I think it's much easier to just use >SPDIF and go
>>>> real-time with somewhat common regular DAT machines. If you monitor in
>> real
>>>> time, you can clearly hear if there are the problems that plague some
>> DATs,
>>>>> uncorrectable errors, mutes, dropouts, etc.
>>>>
>>>> -- Tom Fine
>>>
>>> Yes it is kludgey to get the unit to work, but once it is configured, it
>> can
>>> work like a charm. Any errors are easily viewable in a competent DAW
>> such as
>>> Wavelab. In such cases, I try a pass on the Sony R500. 9 times out of 10
>> it
>>> works fine.
>>>
>>> I must admit that this is a repurposing of already outmoded technology.
>> It is
>>> difficult to find the drives, and you have to seek out the software, plus
>>> figuring out how to make it work.
>>> But if your collection is very large, it may be worth looking into.
>>> Of course, all this assumes a competent engineer, who can recognize
>> errors when
>>> they see them..
>>>
>>> -Matt Sohn
>>