I was able to get a Onkyo Dual Cassette Deck (TA-RW244), which dubs at two speed. I can then dub and recorded at 88200 hz and then change the sample rate to 44100. It worked wonderfully. However I don't use this feature because the cassette deck is also able to play both side of a cassette on one deck and the start the other one. This gives me two hours of continuous recording. If I use the dubbing feature I have to put a dummy cassette in the recording deck which limits me to using one cassette deck at a time. However, a high quality cassette deck DOES make a world of difference in the sound. No cassette hiss and such. Using Dolby C Noise Reduction and an external USB sound card, and Gnome Wave Cleaner gives me Very good sound. On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:21:13 +0200, Juhana Sadeharju <kouhia@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm sure the 96 kHz converters have not been designed for > this kind of application. Only choise is to record with > the normal speed. > > It could be more realistic to buy multiple cassette players. > That would reduce the digitization time easily. You would > not need quality players if you have only speech on the > tapes. The neat thing is that multiple players would reduce > your idle time as you would need to change the cassettes > all the time. > > If there would be simple robots available, one could > leave the cassette changing to the robot. > > Juhana > -- > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev > for developers of open source graphics software >
