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

[Rocker]

If your computer has a decent soundcard with analogue inputs that should be fine. The Behringer is simply a cheap but fairly decent analogue to digital (and vice versa) converter that plugs into a USB port. It takes its power from the USB, but is not inside your computer's casing, which for some soundcards can cause electromagnetic interference.

 
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From: 'Stuart Brooks' stuartb@... [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com>
To: peel <peel@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Jan 11, 2016 9:10 pm
Subject: Re: [peel] Re: A later Jan 1983 Jensen/Peel uploading to Moo and...



  
    
                  


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?

 

From: mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 10:15 AM
To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
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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