7 Oct
2008
7 Oct
'08
12:36 a.m.
I'm trying to get some loose ends tied up, and that involves
duplicating tape cassettes.
I have a TC-WE635 "Stereo Cassette Deck". It says "DC Servo
Controlled Motor" on the doors, so it must be good! : )
It has "Automatic Tape Selection", so I will have to trust that...
It gives me a selection of:
Dolby NR
(OFF) (ON) (ON FILTER) and then a (B) and (C)
Which settings do I want to use?
It has stereo audio outputs on the back, of course, so I will also
record the audio into a computer. However these days I don't want to
put all of my trust into the computer...
Grant
7 Oct
7 Oct
1:02 a.m.
Grant Stockly wrote:
I'm trying to get some loose ends tied up, and
that involves duplicating
tape cassettes.
I have a TC-WE635 "Stereo Cassette Deck". It says "DC Servo Controlled
Motor" on the doors, so it must be good! : )
It has "Automatic Tape Selection", so I will have to trust that...
It gives me a selection of:
Dolby NR
(OFF) (ON) (ON FILTER) and then a (B) and (C)
Which settings do I want to use?
It has stereo audio outputs on the back, of course, so I will also
record the audio into a computer. However these days I don't want to
put all of my trust into the computer...
You would want to turn off anything thing to do with Dolby filtering/mixing of the
channels.
I've done some duplication of tapes of code i wrote for VZ200 many years ago and key
thing was
turning off bass boost and keep the bass knob low and fiddle with the tone setting a bit.
I remember band pass filters for different systems, I ended up making one for the VZ200
so I could make duplicates of my code =) also some had VU meter style level monitoring,
etc...
cheers,
Kim
7 a.m.
Grant Stockly wrote:
I'm trying to get some loose ends tied up, and
that involves
duplicating tape cassettes.
I have a TC-WE635 "Stereo Cassette Deck". It says "DC Servo
Controlled Motor" on the doors, so it must be good! : )
It has "Automatic Tape Selection", so I will have to trust that...
It gives me a selection of:
Dolby NR
(OFF) (ON) (ON FILTER) and then a (B) and (C)
Which settings do I want to use?
It has stereo audio outputs on the back, of course, so I will also
record the audio into a computer. However these days I don't want to
put all of my trust into the computer...
Make Dolby = OFF
I suppose these are original tapes ?
I don't think these recordings ever used Dolby with such a narrow band
of frequencies. The signal strength should be strong enough still if
they were kept in a safe place. Even though you have a stereo deck and
the tapes were usually recorded on a mono deck, you still might want to
wire both right and left channels on the sound card to make your
recording. Because when you insert the stereo plug without this you
leave one of the inputs floating if it's not wired--might get some
unexpected results.
=Dan
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