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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. >>