Jactars, anyone

[dgmccarthy]

I have a fair few sessions on DAT which I am slowly transferring to non-linear.  Unfortunately, DAT is not a great long-term storage medium and there are some corruptions and some tape-breakages.  

I was working at the Beeb from 87-93 and collected sessions whenever I could, usually from either the broadcast masters at the time of transmission or at the recording session if I happened to be working on them.

I'll post a list of what I have transferred so far and if anyone wants anything they can let me know.

It's been great to find this group. It's helping patch a few holes caused by dodgy DATs!

David


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "bty997881" <unity.gain@...> wrote:
>
> Many thanks for that. Nostalgia in Hi Fi - bargain!
> Of course it begs the question, what other treasures do you have along these lines...?
> cheers
> Roger
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "dgmccarthy" <dgmccarthy@> wrote:
> >
> > I've uploaded a zipped file of all four tracks here: https://files.me.com/dgmccarthy/ohk1ig
> > 
> > The password is ravenscroft.
> > 
> > They are just labelled Jacktars1, Jacktars2, etc but are:
> > 
> > 01 Pull the plug
> > 02 Flower powder
> > 03 Millions of grains
> > 04 Things not seen
> > 
> > These are 48kHz 16bit stereo .wav files. They were digitally transferred from my DAT collection. The DAT copy would have been made from the quarter-inch masters probably on the night of transmission. If I was working on the show I would routinely dump a copy to a DAT for posterity.
> > 
> > Let me know if there are any issues.
> > 
> > The link will expire in 30 days.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "bty997881" <unity.gain@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes please!And if they're from 1/4" masters, .flac or other lossless format would be hugely appreciated.
> > > Fwiw, I have their Wadlow 12" here, and it definitely has no 'k' !
> > > cheers
> > > Roger
> > > 
> > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "dgmccarthy" <dgmccarthy@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have copies of the masters for this session and the originals were labelled as "The Jacktars". So, Ken's info was accurate as far as the Beeb knew.  If anyone's interested I can upload these files somewhere.  From my notes I think I would have copied them from the broadcast quarter-inch tapes.
> > > > 
> > > > David
> > > > 
> > > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley <martinw@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > At 23:33 02/04/2011, you wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Thanks, that does indeed appear to be them, but they most certainly 
> > > > > >were The Jactars - a BBC typo perhaps, and possibly why I never 
> > > > > >found their session before,
> > > > > >cheers
> > > > > >Roger
> > > > > 
> > > > > I was going by Ken's book and he presumably got his info
> > > > > from the BBC paperwork
> > > > > 
> > > > > martinw
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