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Join Everett Porter, producer and engineer at Polyhymnia Studios, in the process of remastering Leonard Bernstein's 9...

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Thomas W. Bethe 18th December 2023
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I really do wish I had the restoration tools back when we started into business 30 years ago. All I had was basically equalisers...

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timtape 4 days ago
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We are looking to do even higher quality transfers since a few of our clients have recently asked for them. This will be a major...

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Thomas W. Bethe 2 weeks ago
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I am starting a new thread for this, since it has little to do with the transfer procedure. I started transferring my old DATs...

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JGebauer 4 weeks ago
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I recently came into an Otari UFC-24 with SDIF-2 I/O. I need to come out of my PCM-1630 digitally to avoid its D/A card....

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AudioRestorer 4 weeks ago
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I have probably around 50 DAT recordings I would like to transfer to the computer for archiving. I have a DAT machine,...

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ken long 17th March 2025
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So lately I have been trying the Noise Reduction plugins from CEDAR. I already own RX. I will be giving my thoughts on this...

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Thomas W. Bethe 10th March 2025
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Had to do some transfers of a MD yesterday. We tried to do it digitally but this is a MD copy of the original and for some reason...

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Thomas W. Bethe 10th March 2025
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Hi, I have this audio clip of some voices from a 78rpm record, but something went wrong when it was transferred and the pitch is...

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timtape 1st March 2025
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Got in a project for a client. It was a transfer done from a tape recorded in the 1970s by a college radio station. We did not do...

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timtape 26th February 2025
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Here is the YT clip. https://youtu.be/6bIUXgVZz9A?si=L2Cm_Aj0oxSaAYWK The source tapes are slow speed reel to reel recorded...

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d1966 5th February 2025
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I got a call yesterday about a VHS transfer. The potential client wanted a transfer of a "movie I just produced on VHS...

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Thomas W. Bethe 20th December 2024
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I am working on a musical selection for a client. The music is well recorded BUT someone, at some time in the past, did some...

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Thomas W. Bethe 19th December 2024
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Hey guys, I am working on restoring a lost-to-time recording, just for personal, hobby purposes. This is a song that was...

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jamesp 16th December 2024
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Got in 36 cassettes for transfer and restoration. These are from a long time client who we have done similar work for in the...

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Thomas W. Bethe 27th November 2024
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A friend who I was in my first band with (way back in the 80s) kept some of the original studio recordings we did that are on 1/4...

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timtape 18th November 2024
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How can I get my music off of some old dat tapes and tascam 4 track mixes without getting the machines I just to get them on a cd...

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Thomas W. Bethe 8th November 2024
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Anyone have this equipment available? Please PM me. Thanks :thumbsup:

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Thomas W. Bethe 25th October 2024
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It was a reel to reel tape tape supposedly done in the late 1960s or early 1970s. It was quarter track stereo. There was music...

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timtape 20th October 2024
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hello! hope this is the right place for this and apologies if not. i am a studio and live mixing engineer and producer, and a...

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timtape 18th October 2024
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One side of a two record set was 29 minutes and 9 seconds. It was of a G&S performance in the 1960s at a local college. The...

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timtape 23rd September 2024
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Hi, I'm working with a producer who needs an 8 track tape transferred to Wav. files for importing into pro tools etc. If you also...

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timtape 17th September 2024
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I have a good friend who just passed away. He was an avid collector of musical broadcast tapes. He had a library of over 2000...

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Thomas W. Bethe 8th August 2024
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Just since it came up in another mastering thread, here are a couple of screenshots of old reel recordings from my collection....

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timtape 31st May 2024
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I just got in 60+ classical recordings that the client wants to make into an anthology. They range from the late 60's to the...

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Thomas W. Bethe 29th May 2024
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First, I should say that beyond having some success with DeClip long ago I'm otherwise not at all experienced using Izotope Rx. I...

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Trakworx 10th May 2024
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I just got three tape decks A Tascam 32, a Tascam 34 and an Otari MX-5050B four channel machine. My friend is getting out the...

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Thomas W. Bethe 16th March 2024
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A slightly unusual case for me. I received a 3" reel, 1/4" tape to transfer. It was one of those "living...

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timtape 11th March 2024
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Hi all Is it possible to add punchiness to a ripped track sourced from vinyl? i can undertand the process for adding punch...

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kludgeaudio 5th March 2024
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A local resident, who I know, called me to ask if I could transfer 6 audio cassettes to CDs. I told her "yes" so...

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Thomas W. Bethe 5th February 2024
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It played back perfectly with no problems. I pre spooled it just to make sure there were no broken splices or adhesion problems....

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jamesp 25th January 2024
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This was for a local client. The records were 33.3 RPM, 45 RPM and 78 RPM. They were all done on vinyl. The transfers came off...

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frans 29th December 2023
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Hi, I purchased a tape that seems to be impossible to find a player for. A very early digital tape format, "3M 265 Digital...

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timtape 14th December 2023
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The distortion is caused by a) overloaded inputs on the original recordings b) by using the wrong bias settings on the cassette...

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Thomas W. Bethe 14th November 2023
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Something a little different. Film audio is still audio and it seems sometimes neglected or even looked down upon as of...

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timtape 19th October 2023
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I just transferred 22 C-90 cassettes. Now the client wants me to edit out the "pregnant pauses" where the speaker...

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Thomas W. Bethe 7th October 2023
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When listening to a track made from roughly 1960's to 1980's on Spotify or any similar streaming service.... what am I...

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jamesp 9th September 2023
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From a recent client via Email Hi Tom: I want to thank you for the masterful job you did of repairing my old audio cassette...

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Thomas W. Bethe 2nd September 2023
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Yo. I have a Tascam 112mk3 which I used maybe for 4 hours and the push buttons (and therefore maybe the logic controls?) have...

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The cassette deck playback does not even register on the deck's VU meters. It was recorded in a living room with a group of women...

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Thomas W. Bethe 30th August 2023
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I got a phone call today from a prospective client. He called at 8am this morning and hung on the phone for over 20 minutes. He...

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Thomas W. Bethe 16th August 2023
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I just got a strange phone call from a potential client. He wanted me to do some transfer work. So I asked him what was the...

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Thomas W. Bethe 6th August 2023
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I have this out-of-state client for a while. We do sporadic work for them. They are now questioning how much I charge for the...

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Thomas W. Bethe 6th August 2023
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Four of them are "Radio Shack" two of them are name brands. All of the Radio Shack cassettes were "jammed"...

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Thomas W. Bethe 6th July 2023
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It was recorded in the 1960s in Vietnam by a US service man. 1/4 track recorded in both directions at 3 3/4 ips on a roll of .5...

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Thomas W. Bethe 23rd May 2023
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So I get in a cassette that was done sometime in the 70's. It was done on a battery operated cassette deck on a really cheap...

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Thomas W. Bethe 13th May 2023
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I got in a tape to transfer. It was 15 ips but did not play well on my four channel 1/4" machine or on my 2 track...

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Thomas W. Bethe 13th May 2023
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I got in a transfer from Texas. It cost the sender over $15.00 to send the 10.5" reel to me for transfer. It was a reel of...

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timtape 7th May 2023
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Doing some transfers for a client of some DAT tapes that were done in the early 1990s. Of the four DAT tapes I have been given to...

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Thomas W. Bethe 5th May 2023
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The problem is he does not know what format they are in or how long each tape is but wants me to "ballpark" a cost per...

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