But that was a thread hijack, I thought. Never mind, I just dislike how the threads veer off into nowhere land... :-)
Lou Judson
Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On Mar 25, 2015, at 10:11 AM, Aaron Coe wrote:
> Lou, I was actually replying to Andrew Dapuzzo who was asking about cassettes within this thread. I use the Otari MX5050-BQIII to transfer quarter track tapes myself, but unfortunately these are not easy to come by and doesn’t help the OP much.
>
> -Aaron
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> http://cuttingcorporation.com
>
>> On Mar 25, 2015, at 12:52 AM, Lou Judson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> OP wants reel, not cassette. I do that with a Sony TC-854-4…
>> <L>
>> Lou Judson
>> Intuitive Audio
>> 415-883-2689
>>
>> On Mar 24, 2015, at 5:55 PM, Aaron Coe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew,
>>>
>>> Cube-Tec sells an expensive proprietary system that uses special Otari top-loading cassette players that can accomplish this: http://www.cube-tec.com/news/highlights/news/317-otari-and-cube-tec-partners-for-audio-cassette-transfer-system
>>>
>>> I have a nice Tascam 134 rack-mount 4-track cassette deck that can play back all four channels of a stereo cassette simultaneously, but unfortunately these are extremely rare and hard to find.
>>>
>>> -Aaron
>>> _______________________
>>> http://cuttingcorporation.com
>>>
>>>> On Mar 13, 2014, at 4:59 PM, Andrew Dapuzzo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know if the same possibility exists for cassettes?
>>>>
>>>> machines that "could reproduce 4 tracks at once, which would speed up the
>>>> digitization project. You'll need to reverse the two backwards channels" in
>>>> the DAW?
>>>>
>>>> When we duplicated prerecorded music cassettes we recorded them this way
>>>> but I am unaware of a playback machine that could playback all four at
>>>> once. I assume they don't exist but .....
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Andrew Dapuzzo
>>>> Sony DADC
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Richard L. Hess
>>>> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi, Lise,
>>>>>
>>>>> Some of the Teac and Sony machines could reproduce 4 tracks at once, which
>>>>> would speed up the digitization project. You'll need to reverse the two
>>>>> backwards channels in your DAW software.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you are willing to play back single channels and move connectors,
>>>>> almost any 1/4-track recorder from "back in the day" could do this for you
>>>>> as long as it has a 3.75 in/s speed.
>>>>>
>>>>> For the Tandberg, you might contact Terrysrubberrollers.com -- he rebuilds
>>>>> the part, but I don't think he fixes machines.
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, there are several of us who could do this for you--on much
>>>>> better machines than the Tandberg, but I fear that the price is high.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Richard
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2014-03-13 2:30 PM, Lise Menn wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello, I am a new member of this list and totally naive about how to use
>>>>>> your collective knowledge so I hope you'll be patient with me and ask for
>>>>>> additional information if you think you can help me.
>>>>>> I have about 60 remaining hours of audiotapes made in the 1970's on a
>>>>>> Tandberg Model 12 which can no longer be repaired (at least not here in
>>>>>> Boulder CO), apparently because its rubber parts have degenerated.
>>>>>> To save money when I was a student, I recorded the four tracks monaurally
>>>>>> at 3 3/4 ips, so that I could get 4 hours of speech recording per reel. I
>>>>>> started digitizing the tapes gradually a few years ago but when I was about
>>>>>> 1/3 thru the job, the Tandberg stopped being repairable. The contents of
>>>>>> the tapes are worth preserving for research in language development; I will
>>>>>> donate the digitized versions to the CHILDES archive at Carnegie Mellon.
>>>>>> Is there a similar working Tandberg someplace that I could visit for a
>>>>>> week or so and use to complete this job? Is there some other 4-track
>>>>>> machine that will permit monaural playback? Is there someone who knows how
>>>>>> to machine new parts for my old tape deck? Any other ideas? Please help,
>>>>>> and thank you.
>>>>>> Lise
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lise Menn Home Office: 303-444-4274
>>>>>> 1625 Mariposa Ave
>>>>>> Boulder CO 80302
>>>>>> home page: http://spot.colorado.edu/~menn/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Professor Emerita of Linguistics
>>>>>> Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Science
>>>>>> University of Colorado
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fellow, Linguistic Society of America
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask], Ontario, Canada 647
>>>>> 479 2800 http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape
>>>>> transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.
>>>>>
>>>
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