[Hidden-tech] Recorder Needed

[Tim Boudreau]

For what it's worth, if you're handy with multitrack audio software,
adventurous and have patience, in a pinch you *can* digitize four track
cassettes using a standard cassette player - tracks 1 and 2 are the left
and right channels of one side of the tape, and 3 and 4 are the other.
So...

 - Digitize side one, from beginning to end (so syncing up the timing is
easier)
 - Flip the tape and digitize side two (it will record backwards)
 - In software (Audacity is free and will do this), with tracks 3 and 4:
    - Reverse the entire waveform of each track
 - Then adjust the sample rate (without modifying the audio - just the
metadata) to be 2x what it is - if you sampled at 48khz, change it to 96k
 - Create a multitrack project with all of it, and slide the tracks around
around to sync up the timing

If that sounds like too much work, talk to Rusty Annis at Shoestring
Studios in Amherst - I'd bet he either has an old 4-track cassette deck
around or knows someone who does.

You also might be able to find a deck cheap on eBay.

Good luck,

Tim



On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 10:03 PM, rikk desgres <all at pinehurstpictures.com>
wrote:

> Michael,
>
> I have some gear in the studio that may be compatible. While I don't rent
> any equipment out, I may be able to help. Give me a call during business
> hours If you don't find a machine.
>
> Rikk Desgres
> Pinehurst Pictures & Sound
> www.pinehurstpictures.com
> 413-584-6200 <(413)%20584-6200>
>
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> On December 9, 2016 at 9:53:28 AM EST, Michael Jacobson-Hardy <
> mjacobsonhardy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I made a series of recordings on an old YAMAHA MULTITRACK CASSETTE
> RECORDER-- DUAL SPEED TRANSPORT and would like to digitize the recordings
> but the recorder no longer works. Does anyone have a cassette recorder that
> can play tapes at tape speeds 9.5 and 4.8 that I can borrow temporarily?
> Many thanks, Michael
>
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