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Title: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3?
Post by: §†∑∫åµÞ≥¥ on August 22, 2005, 07:04:00 PM: Just curious if most have kept their master tapes/DAT's? or dumped them to .flac and/or DVD-r then sold/traded the DAT's? I'm thinking about moving towards the MicroTrack in the next 6-12 months and would love to get rid of all my DAT tapes and player.

Thanks...
Steve
Title: Re: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3?
Post by: BC on August 22, 2005, 08:02:50 PM: Hept em, have them in boxes even though I am sure they will probably never get listened to.

Also have two Fostex D5's and a sony D8 that I am not sure why I am holding on to but don't want to get rid of for some reason. :P :)

Old habits die hard I guess, even when they are not active habits...
Title: Re: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3?
Post by: Brian on August 22, 2005, 08:05:48 PM: i have all my dat masters. don't know if i'll ever get around to transferring the ones that have yet to be transferred though as those are not really a priority. I'll probably keep them forever(as long as they might last) in the box they are in now.
Title: Re: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3
Post by: John R on August 23, 2005, 09:36:40 PM: keeping the master's for now. i also have two d5's that i should probaly get rid of, and keep the trashcan for tape archival/transfer
Title: Re: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3?
Post by: F.O.Bean on August 25, 2005, 09:26:53 PM: kept them, i gave away some select phish shows that i had already converted to flac/dvd-r

but i have converted about 50% of my dat collection to dvd-r/flacs, so only 50% to go when i feel like buying a cheap dat deck!

if it isnt converted, its not going anywhere, and even the ones that are converted sit in the 'converted' box for prolly sometime(years)

i'm anal, so sue me ;)
Title: Re: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3?
Post by: shaggy on August 25, 2005, 09:56:24 PM: I converted and kept them (I am the 'other' vote). I never would sell used audio DATs to anyone. Besides, there is a little of that ol'Deadhead in me that screams 'hey man, that tape was AT THE SHOW'!
Title: Re: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3?
Post by: creekfreak on August 25, 2005, 09:58:03 PM: I keep all mine....I am a pack rat and refuse to get rid of anything...especially music
Title: Re: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3?
Post by: F.O.Bean on August 25, 2005, 09:59:00 PM: Quote from: creekfreak on August 25, 2005, 09:58:03 PM
I keep all mine....I am a pack rat and refuse to get rid of anything...especially music

same here!
Title: Re: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3
Post by: mhibbs on August 28, 2005, 06:48:13 PM: Kept mine. Sold my d8 and kept my DA20.

mitch
Title: Re: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3?
Post by: nedstruzz on August 29, 2005, 10:15:28 AM: I'm in the process of transfering all my DATS to the 722 for conversion to FLAC/DVD and will keep all the DAT masters. However I do remember giving away about 3000 cassettes on Phish summer tour 2000. It was painful to think about the time and money I was giving away but I just could not lug those crates around anymore.
Title: Re: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3
Post by: neumannkid on August 29, 2005, 10:24:52 AM: Ive kept all my masters and still have three decks D7, M1, DA-20. I still have a box of blanks. Ill use my DAT occasionally and try to reuse tapes I have duplicates of.
Title: Re: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3
Post by: Lil Kim Jong-Il on August 29, 2005, 03:58:57 PM: Quote from: shaggy on August 25, 2005, 09:56:24 PM
'hey man, that tape was AT THE SHOW'!

thats my excuse too.

still can't bring my self to get rid of my cassettes and none of them are masters, except for maybe a couple of FM recordings.
Title: Re: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3?
Post by: scb on August 29, 2005, 04:04:11 PM: i've kept all of mine. they're just gathering dust in boxes and on shelves, but I still have them
Title: Re: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3?
Post by: rustoleum on August 30, 2005, 12:48:21 PM: It's my hope to turn them all into Flac/DVDR discs, but I'm a ways off from that. Will probably trade them away for spindles once I make some significant progress. All the space the tapes are taking up could be used for storing the Flac discs.
Title: Re: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3?
Post by: jmclion on September 27, 2005, 11:55:42 AM: Since my D7 died and it is not worth repairing, I have borrowed a friends D8 and I'm in the process of doing massive transfers to flac. I will then pack them away and keep them for old times sake.
Title: Re: Former DAT users: what did you do with your masters after going to a 722/JB3?
Post by: rocksuitcase on October 06, 2005, 09:13:46 AM: Haven't gone there yet. I own a JB-3, but not a DVD burner, so I sit here and burn 16/44.1 wav then transfer to flac on CD-R from all my DAT masters. Then I store them in a metal filing cabinet and don't ever plan to get rid of them.
Then there's the over 1,000 cassette masters.........................still have them too! Only have about 100 of them converted so far! Of course my wife wonders why I have to keep them all. ;D