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I ahould have added: It was made by/for Prestige Productions in Birmingham. My contact said that they originally thought a Betamax digital recorder (PCM/F1, I think he means) was going to be used then they showed up with this...but he doesn't know what it was. He thought Sony. On 10/15/2016 19:06, Richard L. Hess wrote: > I was asked to turn a DASH tape into files. The tape owner was fairly > certain it was made on a SONY machine. > > It would not play on my 3402 which still plays other tapes. > > I baked the tape prior to playback which has been necessary for at least > a few years and is being done in Hollywood on multi-track DASH. > > I believe the tape is tails out, but I could not hear anything on the > aux tracks. When played backwards, I can hear backwards organ sounds (it > is a theatre pipe organ recording) on one channel only. > > It appears to be about 15 in/s. > > I have posted on my website after much research that there are five > variations of the Mitsubishi Pro-Digi format. > > 1. The original X-80 machine had a 50 kHz sample rate. It’s tapes will > play back properly on a 50 ks/s X-80, or 4% slow on a 48 ks/s X-80 or an > X-86C. > > 2. Later X-80 machines had a 48 kHz sample rate. It’s tapes will play > back properly on a 48 ks/s X-80 or an X-86C. Presumably they will also > play 4% fast on an original, 50 kHz X-80. > > 3. The switchable 44.1/48 ks/s X-86 tapes will play on an X-86, X-86C, > and X-86HS. > > 4. The high-resolution (88.2/96 ks/s) X-86HS tapes will only play on > that machine. > > 5. The “radio-station” 7.5 in/s tapes made on the X-86LT will only play > on that machine. > > As far as I know there is only one Sony format. > > So what do you think this tape might be? > > Thanks! > > Cheers, > > Richard > > -- Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] Aurora, Ontario, Canada 647 479 2800 http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.