Digitaltoast wrote in message ...
>My parents have LOADS (I mean hundreds) of reel to reel tapes that
>they want to mp3-ify (not to CD).
>They have two reel-to-reel machines and they have a mac and I have a
>PC I could lend them.
>We were thinking of making a little production line of two machines
>going at once - processing the audio while the other started.
>But I believe in the tape copying world, it's possible to record to
>the PC at ultra-high speed and then just slow down in software.
>All this is a one-off even, audio quality isn't massively paramount
>(but it's music, so still im****tant) but if anyone can think of any
>way to speed this process up, we'd all be grateful!
>BTW, we were thinking of this box to get the sound into the Mac Mini
>(as it has no sound input)
>http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?criteria=A18FW
You can playback the tape at high speed and then slow it down with
software,
but the EQ (tone) will be wrong. If you like the way it sounds, go for it.


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