26 May
2006
26 May
'06
3:31 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 22:48 -0500, Jim Leonard wrote:
I know of at least one person who has repaired bad
tapes by grabbing the
file at 24/48 and then quantizing to an extreme level (like, 8-bit
22KHz) and also increases the volume a bit, both of which more clearly
"presses" the waveform closer to the digital signal that created it. He
writes that to a tape copy, and where the original won't load, the copy
loads just fine.
Way way back, when I used ZX Spectrums a lot, I used to play dodgy tapes
through a guitar fuzzbox to bring up the level and square off the peaks
a bit. It worked, sometimes.
Gordon.