[peel] Cheap cassette player for ripping?

[Roger Carruthers]

As far as the 400 box is concerned, I have to agree that for such a large
number of tapes, and given that a lot of them are not exactly pristine
recordings, it’s a lot to expect everyone to be making azimuth adjustments.
There’s no guarantee that they were all recorded on the same machine, so to
be effective, you’d have to be doing it for every tape!
 It’s taken me long enough as it is to do my share, and to be honest for all
the difference it was making, I decided to drop the azimuth adjustments some
time ago. 
 After all, we’re a just group of volunteers doing this in our spare time,
not paid archivists with nothing else to do all day.
 I’m guessing that most of us here are of an age where our hearing ain’t
what it was, we’d probably rather get our hands on the recordings before it
got any worse!
Cheers
Roger


On 25/07/2009 16:49, "parkermike81@..." <parkermike81@...>
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> i know were gratefull for clinical rippers going to the trouble of de-
> fungusing old tapes and i suppose the obvious question without sounding
> critical as i dont know the answer is would some of those 400 or 500 box tapes
> have sounded better if indeed all rippers used those functions that robert
> mentions if they had them? i guess there`s only so much can be done a bit like
> when you can use a phillips screwdriver to tighten or loosen the capstan
> drive/pinch roller tape heads on the deck[ i might have got the terminology
> wrong] to make certain tapes sound better that were recorded on other decks[to
> be done only if you feel confident the whole mechanism is not going to
> disengage itself],or even playing some tapes while ripping in reverse function
> [< playback mode] like i  do can sound better rather than forward function [>
> playback mode]obviously mono or bad sound drop outs with seriously damaged
> tape is not likely to be improved upon i guess.
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> --- On Sat, 25/7/09, Robert Ward <r0bertward@...> wrote:
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>> From: Robert Ward <r0bertward@...>
>> Subject: Re: [peel] Cheap cassette player for ripping?
>> To: peel@yahoogroups.com
>> Date: Saturday, 25 July, 2009, 2:16 PM
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>> If you're not ripping from the same machine you recorded them on (which
>> you're not, obviously), you might want to get one with a "Play Trim" or
>> "Azimuth Alignment" function on it
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>> From: tomzero <tomzero12@yahoo. com
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>> To: peel@yahoogroups. com
>> <http://uk.mc244.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=peel%40yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, 25 July, 2009 2:47:34
>> Subject: Re: [peel] Cheap cassette player for ripping?
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>> i don't know how much you want to spend, but you can get a fairly decent
>> nakamichi on ebay these days.
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>> --- On Fri, 7/24/09, thinkingthinkingthi nking <slo.coche@bluebott l e.com>
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>>> >From: thinkingthinkingthi nking <slo.coche@bluebott l e.com>
>>> >Subject: [peel] Cheap cassette player for ripping?
>>> >To: peel@yahoogroups. com
>>> >Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 5:29 PM
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>>> >Anyone got an idea or opinion on the cheapest option for a cassette player
>>> good enough for ripping?
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