Hey All-
I am about to transfer a bunch of really old DATs and want to do this once, the right way. Just looking for some confirmation on my plan and recommendations on any details I might be missing.
-I have found a TS'er who will let me borrow their Sony R300 DAT deck with optical output. (I may need to find a cleaning DAT tape?)
-I will connect the R300 to my Mac Mini using a toslink to 3.5mm optical plug
(What will I need to do in System Preferences for the mac to recognize the input/I assume I'll need to set the R300 to SPDIF/Optical- I will check the manual for this)
-I'll record into Sound Studio on the Mac mini (my understanding is it IS bit perfect?)
-Archive the 16/44.8 master to HDD (Should I resample to 44.1 before distributing? Not many will burn to CD I am thinking...not sure what is best here. I will at the least keep the original, bit perfect file)
-I am wondering what the best way is to present these back to the owner. He's not much of a torrent, LMA guy, so I am thinking about buying a 10 pk of USB thumb drives and putting them on them by year..
What else could I screw up here?!