[ale] HOW2 burn reel2reel tapes to CDs ?

[Courtney Thomas]

I have an old Turtle Beach card, don't remember which, and also a 
Creative card that came in a pkg w/spkrs at BestBuy a couple of years back.

Either of these OK ?

Courtney

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I can't speak for Linux support, but any card with S/PDIF can be hooked 
> to an external S/PDIF converter - again, a case of moving the A/D and 
> D/A outside the box.
> 
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
> 
>>Courtney -
>>
>>Have a read through http://www.dansdata.com/tbeach.htm.
>>
>>Jeff
>>
>>Courtney Thomas wrote:
>>
>> 
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>>>Jeff,
>>>
>>>Thank you for your help.
>>>
>>>I have a TEAC X-300 and have audacity installed on a Debian box.
>>>
>>>I'd very much like to hear what kind of audio card would be desirable 
>>>for this, assuming it might be gotten off Ebay.
>>>
>>>Cordially,
>>>
>>>Courtney
>>>
>>>Jeff Hubbs wrote:
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>>>>Yes; I've done hours' worth and still have more to do!
>>>>
>>>>First thing you need, of course, is an R2R deck.  It's good to know 
>>>>ahead of time if the tapes you're dealing with (I assume this is 1/4" 
>>>>tape) are half-track (i.e., two channels across the whole width of the 
>>>>tape) or quarter-track (i.e., two channels on one "side" of the tape and 
>>>>two more on the other "side") because that will determine what kind of 
>>>>deck you need.  You will probably not find a deck that has heads to play 
>>>>back both, however, a quarter-track deck will properly play back a 
>>>>half-track tape (not vice-versa unless the quarter-track tape is 
>>>>recorded only on one side, in which case it will work but at roughly 6dB 
>>>>worse S/N). 
>>>>
>>>>I should tell you that it is difficult to find an R2R deck in good 
>>>>working order.  I had my Teac (consumer Tascam) deck from c. 1982 
>>>>serviced last Spring and it works very well, but almost any deck you'd 
>>>>buy used today almost certainly needs attending to.  Many are likely 
>>>>unserviceable.
>>>>
>>>>Consumer decks typically run at 3-3/4 in/s and 7-1/2 in/s; some 
>>>>portables that only take 3" or 5" reels went down to 1-7/8 in/s.  Pro 
>>>>decks run at 15 and 30 in/s.
>>>>
>>>>Different tapes of different ages shed oxide at different rates.  I've 
>>>>had 40-year-old tapes hold up better than 10-year-old tapes.  You may 
>>>>have to stop mid-reel for cleaning.
>>>>
>>>>Depending on the quality of the recording, you may want to interpose a 
>>>>compressor/limiter between the deck and the computer. 
>>>>
>>>>You really should get a more serious audio input than your motherboard's 
>>>>mic/line-in jack.  Used to be, you'd get an esoteric sound card, but 
>>>>these days, audio I/O seems to be being moved outside the machine to a 
>>>>Firewire or USB device. 
>>>>
>>>>Lastly, you'll need editing and burning software.  Audactity appears to 
>>>>be the app-of-choice in Linux-land;  I do my tape ripping in WinME 
>>>>because my high-end ISA-bus sound card will likely never have a Linux 
>>>>driver.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Courtney Thomas wrote:
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>>>>>Anyone successfully done this ?
>>>>>
>>>>>How, please ?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thank you.
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