[Phluge]

As a follow-up to my previous " reel to reel to CD" post to which the
consensus recommended professional transferring from old tape to CD:

First, thanks for all your advice. I had thought it would be easy to make a
quick copy first for listening (I am anxious to hear it).

Is there a good online resource where I can learn about what choices I would
be able to make compression, whether the transferred tunes would be
separate files or not, etc? I would like to get a good uncompressed CD copy
so I could later fool with burning mp3 copies, do some editing, all that.

I need to know what to expect -- I inquired once from an online studio and
the response I got was "Send us the tape and we'll make you a CD for $40." I
think they meant mp3.

And/or can you all recommend a good place online to have it done?

TIA, Pflu

[Scott Dorsey]

Phluge wrote:
Is there a good online resource where I can learn about what choices I would
be able to make compression, whether the transferred tunes would be
separate files or not, etc? I would like to get a good uncompressed CD copy
so I could later fool with burning mp3 copies, do some editing, all that.

By default, nobody is going to put any compression on it. If you want
individual tunes broken up into files, that's probably an extra cost item.

I need to know what to expect -- I inquired once from an online studio and
the response I got was "Send us the tape and we'll make you a CD for $40." I
think they meant mp3.

If you were to send it to me, I'd just run the tape machine into a standalone
CD recorder, which is probably what they'd do. The hard part is prepping
the tape and setting the azimuth precisely; the 3 3/4 ips consumer formats
are a major pain to get good sound quality from.

And/or can you all recommend a good place online to have it done?

I'll do it for time and materials. So will Steve Puntolillo. I don't
know if either one of us are "online" though.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Phluge]

If you were to send it to me, I'd just run the tape machine into a
standalone
CD recorder, which is probably what they'd do. The hard part is prepping
the tape and setting the azimuth precisely; the 3 3/4 ips consumer formats
are a major pain to get good sound quality from.

And/or can you all recommend a good place online to have it done?

I'll do it for time and materials. So will Steve Puntolillo. I don't
know if either one of us are "online" though.
--scott
--
By "online" I meant through online contact like this.

I just want a CD that sounds as good as possible to hear and maybe burn
copies of for my friends. I would like to be able to edit/enhance tunes
mainly for the fun of it -- would that require separate files or could I
just separate them with the editing software?

Here is all the tape content info that was recorded on the box:




Given that, what do I need done? Cost estimate?

Pflu

[Mike Rivers]

On Nov 3, 10:41 am, "Phluge" wrote:

I just want a CD that sounds as good as possible

That's pretty open-ended. For the right fee, we could probably find
someone who can do a very good sound-alike played on modern instruents
and recording in a modern studio.

Here is all the tape content info that was recorded on the box:

Looks like it's 3-3/4 IPS mono "half track" if the boxes are checked
correctly. That was a pretty standard amateur home recording format in
the 1950s. I'd expect that by 1967, the date on the box, it would have
been "quarter track" mono or stereo if it was a home recording, and
7-1/2 or 15 ips if it was a studio recording.

Those titles all seem to be pop songs of the day. Is this a recording
of a cover band? Or is this just a tape of some records? If the
latter, you'd probably do better looking for reissues of the songs on
CD. Lots of familiar titles there.

[Peter Larsen[_2_]]

Mike Rivers wrote:

Looks like it's 3-3/4 IPS mono "half track" if the boxes are checked
correctly. That was a pretty standard amateur home recording format in
the 1950s. I'd expect that by 1967, the date on the box, it would have
been "quarter track" mono or stereo if it was a home recording, and
7-1/2 or 15 ips if it was a studio recording.

People didn't know back then that they were supposed to discard their
hardware every 30 months, it was before the age of the second enligthenment
and in all probability also before the age of widespread FM stereo.


Kind regards

Peter Larsen

[Scott Dorsey]

Phluge wrote:
I just want a CD that sounds as good as possible to hear and maybe burn
copies of for my friends. I would like to be able to edit/enhance tunes
mainly for the fun of it -- would that require separate files or could I
just separate them with the editing software?

Sure, that's what editing software is for.

Here is all the tape content info that was recorded on the box:



Given that, what do I need done? Cost estimate?

3 3/4 recorded one direction on a 7" reel gives you about an hour's running
time for 1.5 mil tape, or 90 minutes for 1 mil. I'd charge you running time,
plus maybe half an hour to set the machine jumpers up for slow speed and
get the azimuth right on a scope. $106/hr, so figure $150 to $200 in the
ballpark. I suspect Steve's price will be similar, and he'll probably use
the same ATR-100 model that I'd use.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."