Playing DAT live recordings on a SCSI DAT?

[lizardstail]

I have many live recordings on DAT tapes. The portable DAT was
stolen, and I'd like to play those recordings on a SCSI WangDAT
3200SE. It has RCA jacks.
Does anyone know can I make this work?

[Richard Kuschel]

>
>I have many live recordings on DAT tapes. The portable DAT was
>stolen, and I'd like to play those recordings on a SCSI WangDAT
>3200SE. It has RCA jacks.
>Does anyone know can I make this work?
>


With a Silicon Graphics workstation and program, otherwise it won't.
Richard H. Kuschel
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[Scott Dorsey]

In article >,
lizardstail > wrote:
>I have many live recordings on DAT tapes. The portable DAT was
>stolen, and I'd like to play those recordings on a SCSI WangDAT
>3200SE. It has RCA jacks.
>Does anyone know can I make this work?

No. Those DDS drives have a different physical format.

There are a couple models of Archive drives that can be ordered with
special firmware, which can play audio DAT tapes.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Eric K. Weber]

Try looking here.....

http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa571/dat2wav.htm

I have not tried their product but it claims to do what you desire...

Regards:
Eric

[Mike Rivers]

In article > writes:

> http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa571/dat2wav.htm
> I have not tried their product but it claims to do what you desire...

There are a lot of strings attached, mostly having to do with the type
of drive. I believe Egghd was looking into this several months back
and chickened out. Perhaps the best solution for the original poster
is to pick up a used DAT recorder, transfer his tapes, and then decide
whether to keep or sell the recorder.



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[Mike Rivers]

In article > writes:

> http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa571/dat2wav.htm
> I have not tried their product but it claims to do what you desire...

There are a lot of strings attached, mostly having to do with the type
of drive. I believe Egghd was looking into this several months back
and chickened out. Perhaps the best solution for the original poster
is to pick up a used DAT recorder, transfer his tapes, and then decide
whether to keep or sell the recorder.



--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me here: double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

[Bill Thompson]

Mike Rivers wrote:
> In article > writes:

>>http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa571/dat2wav.htm
>>I have not tried their product but it claims to do what you desire...

> There are a lot of strings attached, mostly having to do with the type
> of drive. I believe Egghd was looking into this several months back
> and chickened out. Perhaps the best solution for the original poster
> is to pick up a used DAT recorder, transfer his tapes, and then decide
> whether to keep or sell the recorder.

It isn't slam dunk simple... but it isn't all that difficult either.

If you want faster than real-time transfers, using one of the modified
DDS DAT drives is a good alternative.

I don't have my bookmarks here, but if you want a list of sites, and
google lets you down just let me know and I'll post them.

FWIW I use Dat2Wav, and it works with my ancient Archive DAT drive.

Bill

[Bill Thompson]

Mike Rivers wrote:
> In article > writes:

>>http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa571/dat2wav.htm
>>I have not tried their product but it claims to do what you desire...

> There are a lot of strings attached, mostly having to do with the type
> of drive. I believe Egghd was looking into this several months back
> and chickened out. Perhaps the best solution for the original poster
> is to pick up a used DAT recorder, transfer his tapes, and then decide
> whether to keep or sell the recorder.

It isn't slam dunk simple... but it isn't all that difficult either.

If you want faster than real-time transfers, using one of the modified
DDS DAT drives is a good alternative.

I don't have my bookmarks here, but if you want a list of sites, and
google lets you down just let me know and I'll post them.

FWIW I use Dat2Wav, and it works with my ancient Archive DAT drive.

Bill