[ale] HOW2 burn reel2reel tapes to CDs ?

[Jeff Hubbs]

It depends.  Both should be investigated (Google).  Cheaper probably 
means worse.

Jeff

Courtney Thomas wrote:

>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.
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>Either of these OK ?
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>Courtney
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>Jeff Hubbs wrote:
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>>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.
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>>Jeff Hubbs wrote:
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>>>Courtney -
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>>>Have a read through http://www.dansdata.com/tbeach.htm.
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>>>Jeff
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>>>Courtney Thomas wrote:
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>>>>Jeff,
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>>>>Thank you for your help.
>>>>
>>>>I have a TEAC X-300 and have audacity installed on a Debian box.
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>>>>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
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>>>>Jeff Hubbs wrote:
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>>>>>Yes; I've done hours' worth and still have more to do!
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>>>>>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.
>>>>>
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>>>>>Courtney Thomas wrote:
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>>>>>>Anyone successfully done this ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>How, please ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thank you.
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