Thanks for the posts guys.
All very interesting and totally valid arguments. I have considered the
options and I'm going to get a high quality turntable, arm and
cartridge. I have a rega 3 but will upgrade this. I may still record a
few albums to DAT but it will be with a view to getting them onto CD.
Regards.
@(none) wrote:
Signal wrote:
"@(none)" ""andre\"@(none)" wrote:
Guys, I know this must have been covered before but for me it's a new
field. I have a Sony DTC-1000 ES Prodat1 and I want to get certain LP's
from my collection onto DAT tape. First question is how do I do this
and second question is what is the very best way to do this?
Record the LP on a computer, edit, declick and denoise on the computer.
Transcribe the results to the DAT.
http://www.a-reny.com/iexplorer/restauration.html
And when finished, don't throw away the records !
When after a few months the DAT-tapes won't play
anymore or there is no working DAT-player left
on the world, the records will do fine!
I wonder what sort of error count that Sony produces on clean tape.
Oh, it's perfectly low for new tape on a new and well aligned machine.
But heads will wear and tape is often stored in less than perfect
conditions for temperature, moisture and magnetic fields.
Next you play the tapes on another machine as where they were
recorded on. (At the time DAT was used for sending masters for
CD production, every incoming tape got it's own alignment on the
play-back machine in the CD-factory unless it had less that .n errors
by default) I would not reccomment anyone to start using DAT.
it's 1988 technique.
Andre