[Bigpatty]

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?
I have no Manual,
I know some of you out there must have done this so I wonder if anyone
can help me out. Oh,,, my amp is a Yamaha DSP A2070,,,, not sure if
that helps but I'm guessing the decent preamp section in this amp could
be a bonus.

Regards.

[Arny Krueger]

"Bigpatty" wrote in message
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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

[@(none)]

Arny Krueger wrote:
"Bigpatty" wrote in message
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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!

Andre

[@(none)]

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

[Arny Krueger]

"Signal" wrote in message

"@(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 !

Agreed. For one thing, there are the legal consequences.

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!

DAT does seem to be one of the shorter-lived forms of data storage.

I wonder what sort of error count that Sony produces on
clean tape.

Under ideal conditions, DAT reproduction is error-free, even if there are a
few errors on the tape.

[Bigpatty]

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