Home Tape Trail

Reel to reel, cassette and other analogue tape formats.

Re: Analog recording on DAT

It depends on what you consider to be "high-quality." Although a DAT
deck can function as an A/D converter, the standard way of doing this
is through a computer sound card or "audio interface device." If the
one in your computer isn't good enough, there are lots of pro-audio
quality devices to consider.

These devices allow you to record wave files using whatever
combination of sampling rate and resolution suits your requirements.
Once you have wave files, you can use any number of audio editing
and/or mastering tools to get the results you want.

For example, I typically record high-quality material at a sampling
rate of 96 kHz and a resolution of 32 bits. The files produced are
very large so when I'm finished working on them, I write them to DVD-R
disks in order to avoid filling up my hard drive, then downsample them
to 44.1 kHz and change the resolution to 16 bits in order to burn CD-Rs.


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