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In Reply to: RE: Converting a mountain of tapes to digital posted by avbenbaer@gmail.com on May 12, 2020 at 20:33:18
Thank you, John! Do you think my old Ion Tape2PC would be compatible with the TASC systems?
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I have no idea what an Ion Tape2PC is. However, I thought my post was self explanatory. I'm sorry if it wasn't clear and understandable, but I don't know of any other way to explain how to copy cassette tapes to 24/96 digital WAV files. Perhaps someone else can provide a different explanation that's easier to understand.
Sorry!
John Elison
Thank you, John! TASCAM contacted me and said their system was compatible with the Ion Tape2PC converter. I can do it this way, but if I use the speed dubbing option on the Ion machine, the TASCAM recorder cannot process it. It needs to go into a computer, but the rub is that the software the Ion runs on is too old, and so the computer I have (MacBook Air ca. 2013) does not even recognize that something is even being inputted into the machine. I am waiting to hear back from the makers of Ion Tape2PC to see if there is any piece of equipment out there that can handle the incoming data from a speed dub and convert it to a digital file. Otherwise I will be taking months of full-time work to sit there while my tapes are inputting their analog data in real time. Yikes!
Thanks again for your input!
Perhaps you can select only those tapes you plan to listen to again in the future and copy them in real-time using the TASCAM digital recorder. Otherwise, you're on your own because I have no idea how you would digitize tapes at double speed unless you have rather expensive professional recording equipment.
If I were you, I'd copy the tapes as I listened to them. It might take years, but it's the only way I know how to do it. I have to copy my LPs in real-time and it's a tedious and time consuming process. However, that's the only way I know how to do it.
The advantage of copying tapes in real-time is that you can listen to them as you copy them. I can't do that with LPs because it causes acoustic feedback. Of course, I could listen using headphones but if I play my speakers it results in acoustic feedback that gets recorded into the digital copy. That's not a problem with analog tapes.
Good luck,
John Elison
Thank you, John! This is just the info I've been trying to hunt down. If that's the case, it will just have to be that longer project that was not anticipated. Then I will get that TASCAM recorder and start grinding away. Thanks again for the great advice.
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