Eric S. Sande wrote:
I am going to be converting some old reel-to-reel to CD and, some of
them have 'bled' through so, the tracks sound garbled. While the
ones' that don't have this problem will be easy to do, will I
essentially have the same problem, as if I made a copy of a cassette
tape to another cassette tape.
What Riley says is accurate. If the tapes were not stored "tail-out"
(that is stored in non-rewound condition) you can expect problems.
Ah, ok.
This goes for both cassette and reel-to reel. Of course if the head
alignment on the playback machine differs from that of the recording
machine you'll also have issues.
I won't have to worry about a recording machine because, I will be
recording them onto my computer, before I transfer them to CD.
Some machines (all good ones, IMHO) have some degree of azimuth
correction. This can sometimes be applied to good effect. Basically
trial and error, you're looking for maximum high frequency response
out of the recording.
True
If you have actual print-through, as in layer-to-layer magnetic
transfer, there's not much you can do about it. If the tape was
tightly packed, not stored tail-out, this is more likely.
I am hoping I don't have that. If they do(which I suspect, most of them
will), I can blame it on my mother since she is not technology savvy
and, probably all of the reel-to-reel. recordings are from the 1960's n'
70's. Including one from the day Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was
assasinated.
Different flavors of tape have different characteristics. I don't
endorse it, but see this on tape baking:
http://www.tangible-technology.com/tape/baking1.html
Thankyou for the link.
I'd try to avoid doing this to a tape that's tightly wound, but I'd
balance that against the potential oxide loss of winding a tail-out
tape into a looser pack by simply playing it and then doing it.
Agreed.
If you do that play with the azimuth and use headphones to see if you
can reduce the garbage. If you can't and the tape is visibly losing
oxide you're probably hosed.
Well, I don't think I would be, but, the tape certainly would.
Take this with a grain of salt, it's been many years since I used tape
regularly.
Same here. Both tape and vinyl feel like the dinosaur age.
Here is the link to the Revox A77
<http://www.analogstereo.com/images/r2r/a77_main.jpg>. A neighbor gave
me the proper cable to transfer the reel-to-reel, to my computer.
Christopher
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