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@Tom, You say that it would be fine for spoken work or oral histories. I am not familiar with the process of double speed, but how will it not mess with the frequencies and formants of things like vowels? (speaking as a phonetician and linguist here.) - hugh paterson On Mar 13, 2014, at 3:18 PM, Tom Fine wrote: > Hi Andrew: > > Any of the several "porta-studio" type machines from Tascam, Fostex, Yamaha and maybe others could do 4 tracks at once. I think Richard Hess has said the track configuration is slightly different from Norelco Standard, but it would probably be fine for low-fidelity content like spoken-word. Tascam also made a 4-track front-loading deck. I think most of these decks had dbxII NR instead of Dolby B or C. > > For low-fi material, another advantage is that these decks almost all ran at both 1 7/8 and 3.75 IPS, so you could do whole-tape double-speed ingestion. That would definitely screw up the audio with anything high quality, but it would be fine for stuff like oral histories. > > -- Tom Fine > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Dapuzzo" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 4:59 PM > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Need use of 4-track stereo tape deck/monaural output for digitization project > > >> 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. >>> >>