Bad audio tape! Bad tape! behave!


(Ben Nguyen) wrote in message
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I have a bad audio tape that contains both sides of the tape recording
on one side. So when played you can hear both sides at the same time
with one track backwards.

Sonic Foundry has a reverse feature but I cant separate the 2 sides so that
I can reverse just one (The audio clip shows up as just one waveform.)

Is there a way to filter the waveform into its 2 track components?

Help!
Ben

If your source is 1/4", it is almost certainly 1/4 track. (or one of the less
common formats meantioned by HA) Fix it by playing back on the right format
machine.

A Tascam or Otari 4 track would work just fine too. Forward info will be on
tracks 1 and 3.

If it is important material, and you are an analog newbie, get someone who
knows what they're doing to help you. Make sure the heads are de-quaussed and
if the machine hasn't been in service for a while, put a piece of shop-tape on
it first to make sure the sucker isn't going to eat your source.

Proper playback alignment for the format you're dealing with is also nice.


wrote:


.....It may have been a quarter track stereo machine. These record two
tracks in the same half of the tape that a half track stereo machine
uses for one track. You then turn the tape over to continue......
Steve Lane

That's almost right. Quarter track records on half of each track of a
half-track. Corresponds to tracks 1 and 3 of a 4 track head as the tape moves
in the forward direction. Cassette is the same except twice as dinky.

good luck ben. your troubles can be resolved, as long as the source stays
intact.

phillip sztenderowicz