[peel] Mystery Box

[Tim Giebel-Inanloo]

Hi Jon,

I would say that the cheap cassette converters are not really up to much, and won’t get the best out of those tapes, so it’s possible it might be better for Stuart or myself to digitise them, as we have Nakamichi decks. I’m sure Stuart will be in touch soon. It might be more his thing, as I prefer doing shows that are more complete, as those are easier for me to date.
Thanks for letting us know about these :-)
Tim

On 2 Oct 2019, at 12:15, Jon Gemmell jongemmell1@yahoo.co.uk<mailto:jongemmell1@yahoo.co.uk> [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com<mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:



Not sure if I fit your criteria, but here goes: I have a collection of some 50 or so tapes. I purchased a cheap analogue to digital tape converter but haven’t yet got round to doing anything, principally because I don’t know what I’m doing. Whilst the tapes come from the Peel Show with occasional Kershaw, I used to select the tracks I like rather than record the whole programme, so next to no dialogue. All the tapes are from the 1980s, an era that is covered well by the good people on this project. So, if anyone could send me an idiot’s guide I could have a crack myself sometime. Otherwise I would be happy to put in the hands of an expert. But like I said, don’t know if this is what you’re after.

Best
Jon.

Sent from my iPhone

On 1 Oct 2019, at 21:10, RobF robfleay@ntlworld.com<mailto:robfleay@ntlworld.com> [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com<mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:



I've been racking my brains as to how to encourage more people to share their old stashes of tapes. There must still be loads out there.

Short of asking someone on Twitter with a lot of followers (hem hem - hello Mr Quantick) to put out an APB then I guess we're stuck scouring Gumtree  and eBay

On the subject of eBay, I had my dummy listing (pointing people at the wiki and asking if anyone had any tapes)  removed yet again. I think they have periodic sweeps of all listings that contain links to external sites.


On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 20:29, Mr M D Luetchford M.Luetchford@btopenworld.com<mailto:M.Luetchford@btopenworld.com> [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com<mailto:peel@yahoogroups..com>> wrote:

Real shame that you've run out of tapes to rip. Is no one on here sitting on some tapes wondering if they will ever find time to rip them?

Mark


On 30 September 2019, at 14:22, "'Stuart Brooks' stuartb@brooks22.plus.com<mailto:stuartb@brooks22.plus.com> [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com<mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:






I have done, but only on my various HDDs, that’s why I always name them beginning with yyyy-mm-dd, and rename the ones I download

From: MLEFJ mlefj@yahoo.co.uk [peel]
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 8:36 AM
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [peel] Mystery Box



Brilliant work Stuart. If you’re bored you should do what I’m thinking of doing. Getting all the shows (from various people’s folders) and putting them in chronological order for the whole of JP’s career.

Then I can just listen to all the shows there are in a row.... Starting with the earliest.

You’ve probably already done this, I guess

Thanks again to you and everyone who does all the work

James

On 30 Sep 2019, at 01:50, stuartb@brooks22.plus.com [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


Well that didn't take long...

MY10 contained an 85m continuous section of 29th November 2000, previously only some edited tracks from the Lee Tapes were available. Warning, the sound is bad and soon becomes atrocious bordering on unintelligible; this sounds like the tuner was mistuned.

MY11 contained 71 mostly continuous minutes of 14th March 2001, again adding to the edited tracks from the Lee Tapes. It's interesting that both of these shows were very rare in having no shared audio, then like buses, two sources came along at once. There was also a very short snippet from a previous use of this tape, shared as March 2001 on the wiki. It's an unknown date.

MY12 produced a mainly continuous section of 1st March 2001, though only 7 minutes are new.

Finally MY14 added some edited tracks (with intros) to 10th September 1998.

All the other tapes were duplicates of shows already available complete in good quality so weren't shared.

That's my tape backlog cleared. So what to do now... I have still a few Derby Box tapes to re-rip (the Memorex ones with the dodgy pressure pads from the first half of the box). But if anyone who got fed up with their ripping projects fancies sending me the tapes I'd be happy to digitise and return... (Peel  only)

If not, might need to find a new hobby...

Stuart