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Title: Taping from radio??
Post by: redbook on June 30, 2004, 07:46:10 AM
Hi there,

I would like to tape a show that is going to be broadcasted on a local FM station.
Which would be the best way to get a perfect recording?

I have a FM tuner, a D8 DAT, a PCTV card with FM tuner.... what's the best way to do it?
FM TUNER > DAT? PCTV > WAV?

Any help very appreciated.
Thanks!
Title: Re: Taping from radio??
Post by: Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B) on June 30, 2004, 12:02:48 PM
Well if you do PC>WAV you don't have to do any transfer if you want to burn it to CD or share it. But a computer is less reliable than DAT.

Why not do both? If there's a problem with the computer you can use the DAT as a backup.

As far as quality goes they both should be the same. You could tape 24bit with the PC but I'm not sure that would help with the source being FM.

Does that sound good, folks?

MIKE B
Title: Re: Taping from radio??
Post by: spreadheadtom on June 30, 2004, 04:56:33 PM
I would definately run both
Title: Re: Taping from radio??
Post by: firmdragon on June 30, 2004, 09:56:58 PM
while on topic..

someone once told me you could technically record FMs at 32khz w/o loss in fidelity/quality/whatever because FM is in that sample rate range.  is this correct?
Title: Re: Taping from radio??
Post by: zowie on July 01, 2004, 01:16:35 PM
Quote from: firmdragon on June 30, 2004, 09:56:58 PM
while on topic..

someone once told me you could technically record FMs at 32khz w/o loss in fidelity/quality/whatever because FM is in that sample rate range.  is this correct?

No.
Title: Re: Taping from radio??
Post by: Cooker on July 02, 2004, 09:10:10 AM
i believe 32k offers less dynamic range than FM. i think at one time it was referred to as FM quality because that's what it's closest to but FM exceeds it somewhat.  i see no reason to record at 48K though - just gonna waste time resampling something for nothing - do 44.1 .