"Digitaltoast" wrote ...
> 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!
You can try playing them at 2x speed and then diddling the
resulting audio files on the computer to slow them back down
to "normal". This may not even be possible if you want to record
directly to MP3. You may have to record WAV (or whatever
Apple calls it) and then diddle the speed and then encode into
MP3.
The tonal equalization is not likely to be very good, but only you
(or your parents) can make the final decision whether it is "good
enough" for this application.
> 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
Seems like overkill to get a box designed for 6 chanel sound.
You can likely get something that will do 2 channels for half
that cost.
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