JRhoBurton
All roads lead to music
Long story here, might be boring. I've told parts of it here before.
Some time ago I agreed to work on digitizing audio cassettes from services at my wife's church. I did not promise to do all of them. My wife gradually brought home more and more. I think there are about 7,000. I had no idea there would be so many.. Most are Maxell Duplicator Series C60's, like these:
Also lots of TDK. Quality tapes. The tapes are mono, or might as well be. I have 4 Pioneer 6-cassette changers. Here are 2.
I rigged timers and relays to record to a stereo sound card while I was at work, or overnight. Six hours on one pair of decks, then six on the other. The real work is splitting up and tagging the tracks. I have done about 900 tapes. I scaled back to 2 decks in the rack recently, and have neglected the project, but decided to try resuming with 4 decks and a 4-channel sound unit. I just got a Behringer UMC404HD.
I still need to deploy the other 2 decks. After I ordered the Berry, it occurred to me that it might be useful for quad dubs. I did a lot of research and fiddling today and found out that Audacity will record 4 channels. It will only play back 2, but it will make 4-channel FLACs that will play back in Foobar2000. I have used both programs for some time but was unaware of the quad options. Testing shows that it all works well.
So now, in addition to analog quad-to-quad copies, I could do various analog/digital tasks, like quad reels to FLAC, or SACD in 4.0 mode to FLAC, then to reel, or do quad FLACs of myself overdubbing on guitar.
Plus the Berry is good for playing streams or CDs I've ripped to FLAC. And it does higher res than Redbook, but I don't think I can hear improvements there. Maybe need to revisit that. Anyway, I learned a lot today. I'm opsimathic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opsimath
Some time ago I agreed to work on digitizing audio cassettes from services at my wife's church. I did not promise to do all of them. My wife gradually brought home more and more. I think there are about 7,000. I had no idea there would be so many.. Most are Maxell Duplicator Series C60's, like these:
Also lots of TDK. Quality tapes. The tapes are mono, or might as well be. I have 4 Pioneer 6-cassette changers. Here are 2.
I rigged timers and relays to record to a stereo sound card while I was at work, or overnight. Six hours on one pair of decks, then six on the other. The real work is splitting up and tagging the tracks. I have done about 900 tapes. I scaled back to 2 decks in the rack recently, and have neglected the project, but decided to try resuming with 4 decks and a 4-channel sound unit. I just got a Behringer UMC404HD.
I still need to deploy the other 2 decks. After I ordered the Berry, it occurred to me that it might be useful for quad dubs. I did a lot of research and fiddling today and found out that Audacity will record 4 channels. It will only play back 2, but it will make 4-channel FLACs that will play back in Foobar2000. I have used both programs for some time but was unaware of the quad options. Testing shows that it all works well.
So now, in addition to analog quad-to-quad copies, I could do various analog/digital tasks, like quad reels to FLAC, or SACD in 4.0 mode to FLAC, then to reel, or do quad FLACs of myself overdubbing on guitar.
Plus the Berry is good for playing streams or CDs I've ripped to FLAC. And it does higher res than Redbook, but I don't think I can hear improvements there. Maybe need to revisit that. Anyway, I learned a lot today. I'm opsimathic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opsimath
