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(a)nic.funet.fi> 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
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