Archiving the tapes

[billfromnorthwales]

OK, what I did was capture raw side 1 and side 2 of each tape as best 
I could. Correcting at source (tape speed on cassette player ) when I 
could and generallly spending all my time on best capture possible

These will be the masters and are saved as 44.1Khz 16 bit mono flac

Then I put all the "shows" into 1 mp3 file for each, cross fading 
tape flips when possible, or fade in fade out where not, tweaking 
speed correction, Eq and then generate an mp3 file at 192kbs.

On the first batch I got one complete, one nearly complete and 6 
partial shows out of the 10 cassettes.

All now returned to Rocker

With the raw capture preserved as lossless files, when these are 
distributed someone else can have a go at remastering if they feel 
the need 

Bill

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "bty997881" <roger.carruthers@...> wrote:
>
> Before committing my first batch to DVD and returning them to 
Rocker, I just want to confirm 
> that we're all reading from the same playlist wrt archiving, ie. 
the .flac copies are just 
> straight recordings, as they come, and not to be tweaked in any 
way, right ?
> 
>  The reason I ask is that although it would be normal practice when 
archiving /not/ to do any 
> EQ , pitch correction, noise reduction etc. I'm just wondering 
where we stand on, say a tape 
> that becomes one-legged in parts, ie. one channel fades to 
virtually nothing but noise? As 
> these are all mono recordings, I would normally correct this, but 
wondered whether you'd 
> prefer it just as it is (for the archive copy) ?
> 
>  I will almost certainly clean up the .mp3 copies I upload, but I'm 
assuming the archive 
> copies exist simply as insurance against the million things that 
can, and too frequently do, 
> go wrong with tapes,
> cheers
> Roger
>