[78-L] Fun with DAT (WAS: Chap new turntable)

[David Lennick]

I've gone through a few DAT recorders since 1992, and I've also had remarkably 
few tape failures. Probably far less problems with DAT than with CD-R (none 
yet, but others are documenting problems) or open reel (sticky shed runs 
rampant through all the "good tape"), and recordings from 17 years ago still 
play perfectly. But some years back I learned always to use new tape or to 
erase old ones carefully..where I got glitches was when I recorded over DATs 
from another source. And you can still get new tapes from American Digital.

http://www.american-digital.com/prodsite/product.asp?p=27

Don't buy the 90m tapes..unreliable for music. The 60m tapes (2 hours) are just 
fine.

dl

Sammy Jones wrote:
> dl wrote
> 
>> My method isn't that pure either, but it's digital..I still transfer to
>> DAT,
>> where I can correct false starts or re-start tracks that skip or wow
>> and I can
>> re-do the start points before transferring the finished program to CD.
> 
> I still use DAT from time to time also.  I just got a new Sony R-700 deck
> off oBoy.  Seller didn't say that the cassette door was broken and that it's
> missing it's feet!  Lots of Styrofoam peanuts, too...and with the cassette
> door being broken, guess where a goodly amount of the little buggers ended
> up???  Still...very low hours and it seems to work just fine otherwise.
> 
> I'm using it tonight to copy an Allman Brothers LP to CD for my brother.
> I'm not sure that it's less hassle than going into the computer, but it's a
> little more fun...and very easy to do fade-ins and -outs and fix track
> starts.
> 
> Sammy Jones
>