Just A Minute

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From: espen.kromke@...
Sent: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:31:19 +0100
To: just-a-minute@...
Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] Help me out of a Jam anyone? Just a minute 259 Getting Wound up with the 4 boys NOT Andree Melly earlier version

 

You do not need any special "tape-to-mp3"-type equipment (do they really
sell that? Geez...!), a regular cassette player connected to the input
socket of a audio card. Better with a direct transfer than making tapes
of tapes, for each generation copy of the old magnetic tapes there are
significant quality loss.

Whats of critical importance is to use audio card of decent quality
during the transfer from analog to digital.
Cheap pc hardware may sound ok when you play your cds or mp3's, but they
are useless as recording devices. Due to poor shielding and cheap parts
they add an unavoidable digital noise and a poor "translation job" of
analog to digital.

I've got a friend with cassette player in his hi-fi setup, so with his
assistance I could do this transfer for you.
However I live in Norway so the tape will have to be shipped over here
if I shall do the transfer. And that is all up to you of course.

And whoever ends up with the mission, if I could please ask to be sent a
copy of the raw, digital recording (before mp3 encodnig etc)? The reason
is that in addition to some personal audio work experience I got a buddy
that is a professional sound engineer, and I'm pretty sure I can get him
to do some post-production magic on this gem.

Den 23. feb. 2011 19:17, skrev Dave B:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have searched my house and must have thrown out my cassette player assuming I
> would never need it again. Internet prices for players which convert to MP3 are
> over £30 and I think I would rather do a tape to tape copy first as the tape has
> been trapped in a jam (1) more than once.
>
> So any chance any of you jammers who can help transfer my cassette tape to a MP3
> lives anywhere near Manchester, UK? It would be nice to collaborate on getting
> this lost gem into our archives.
>
> That said anyone who has experience of sorting out this problem is welcome to
> contribute.
>

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