[peel] Re: A later Jan 1983 Jensen/Peel uploading to Moo and...

[Stuart Brooks]

Agree with all that – though as 3 head machines have individual heads optimised to playback and recording, rather than a compromise, it would be better for the purpose.

What do these Behringer things do – are they of any benefit if I already have a good sound card?

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Subject: [peel] Re: A later Jan 1983 Jensen/Peel uploading to Moo and...

  

totally agree on azimuth accessibility being a good idea - but three head isn't too important as you're not really recording, although it is generally an indicator that the machine was kinda 'top of the range'-ish so might be better quality generally... 

also totally agree on cleaning the machine between each side. old tapes are horrendous for dumping stuff on the heads/rollers.

and agreed that the ion etc 'converters' are the lowest of the low... ANYTHING is better than those things... but still, they ARE better than nothing ;)

I wouldn't say nakamichi is overkill - those machines will pull every last scrap of info from the tape - in most cases the machines that the shows were recorded on put down much more information on the tape than they were capable of playing back at the time. A Nak will get it all back.

But the main thing is get a stable strong machine in good condition - all the rubber (belts, pinch rollers, idler tyres) needs to recent-ish

A cheap behringer usb soundcard will be fine.. posh soundcard/AD stuff at this point *is* probably overkill, although every little helps, maybe...


don't fall too far down the tape-deck rabbit hole - there's no way back :)



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