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Gear / Technical Help => Playback Forum => Topic started by: super-phat-al on January 11, 2004, 10:43:17 PM
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Just picked up 200 analog tapes from Bri. Now i need a nice deck to use to transfer. I have a deck but dont wanna use it for transfers. looking in the high school student budget.
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Just picked up 200 analog tapes from Bri. Now i need a nice deck to use to transfer. I have a deck but dont wanna use it for transfers. looking in the high school student budget.
i use a Nakamichi deck. the model choices are endless, mostly dictated by how much you're willing to spend.
marc
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also the old denons are great
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I have a Sony ES and it is a tank. Highly recommended!
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is that a 3 head sony Jamie?
I had one of those back in the day, really nice...
Al - you should be able to find some decent decks for a good price, just sniff around...
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is that a 3 head sony Jamie?
I had one of those back in the day, really nice...
Al - you should be able to find some decent decks for a good price, just sniff around...
Yes, it is the KA2ES. Three heads and an absolute tank. One of the best equipment purchases I ever made.
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I have an LX-3 bought for about $60. It's "head" and shoulders above the late 80s Denon I owned previously -- smoother highs, much more low level detail, better pitch stability. I've even started listening to my old cassettes again for enjoyment, although I only bought it to do some transfers.
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i have a nakamici MR-2 that i posted in the yard sale a while back - no takers. it works fine, and has been sitting in it's box for about 7 months. it is all yours for 75.00
let me know via PM. take care
coop
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i've transferred many masters and low gen tapes for friends.
IMHO, the single most important feature one needs to pull the best signal from a tape is the Head Azimuth alignment.
deck makers such as Nakamichi and Tascam made them in the past. i can tell you from recent experience that getting the correct alignment of the playback head is essential in bring out the full potential in a recording.
i use a Nak CR-7A for all my tape transfers, and the unit has served me well for close to 15years.
marc
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Will a cassette deck such as those mentioned above make a noticeable difference in a transfer to a pc? i transferred quite a few cassettes this past year and i got decidedly mixed results(using the cassette deck from my old aiwa all in one college stereo). if spending 75 on a cassette deck will really help then that is great. any other tips and suggestions?
i tried putting my ad-20 in the mix and that didn't help much. other than that i couldn't think of much to try.
absolutely!! your playback cassette deck is the most important equipment in your transfer, IMO.
here's an offer for ya: send me 1 cassette that you want transferred. i'll put it to a DAT and send them back to you. you make your own Cassette > DAT transfer and make a comparison.
if you don't hear a significant difference, then i'll happily offer you my apologies for wasting your time and TS's bandwidth.
i think you'll be quite surprised :)
marc
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Agreed.
Of course, if the tape is horrendous the deck matters much less.
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http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=5342
SBD+Aud Matrix->Cassette + 12 years->Nakamichi RX-505->Sony DTC-A6
transfer came out quite nice!!
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Only if your DAT has better converters than your sound card. If you have a good card (USB, or whatever), then no.
I transfer tapes (and most other sources) with a CDR-W33, Sony's pro CD recorder that has SBM and also a limiter and eq. Good sound, and big advantage convenience-wize since it's in my stereo rack with the cassette deck. I can then pop the discs in the computer and do whatever else I might want with them (e.g., noise reduction). But I might stop this method since recently upgrading to 24/96 capability on my computer.
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I kept my old Sony D-6 (a portable Dolby C cassette deck). I also have a Nak BX-2 home cassette deck. When I want to transfer one of my masters I use the D-6 and do the A/D with the AD-1000.
Point being:
I use the exact same deck I recorded with to do the transfer. This is the ideal situation. For tapes I did not record myself I use the BX-2.