DAT-heads Digest #58
Contents:
Dolby question (Carlos Martinez)
Re: Dolby question (Gregory Garwin)
Re: Dolby Question ("Matt Sohn")
Opcode DATport Drivers (dattrader@comcast.net)
DDS drive on a Mac (David McGee)
Up for grabs: MiniDisc masters (Beck, Isis) (rappard@dds.nl)
Can I still get the full unrestricted DAT2WAV? (Kurt Ruthe)
From: Carlos Martinez <carlmart@centroin.com.br>
Subject: Dolby question
Reply-To: Carlos Martinez <carlmart@centroin.com.br>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:44:04 -0200
> From: Mike Parker <mikeparker5@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Dolby question
> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:23:41 -0800 (PST)
> I have a Revox A-77 mkII reel to reel deck, with no
> dolby, and a bunch of reels recorded with Dolby B to
> transfer. So i've checked out eBay, and have found the
> Teac AN-60, AN-180 & AN-300 units for sale. My
> question is, are these Dolby A or B? Just says Dolby
> on the front of the units. I have read up a little on
> the subject, and it seems that Dolby B was a single
> band & Dolby A was four bands of boost/adjustment.
> Would these machines work for what I need to do, which
> is playback home recorded stereo 4-track reels with
> Dolby B?
> thanks very much,
> Mike Parker
AFAIK there's no tape-recorder of any kind that has Dolby-A included.
Dolby-A was a separate unit that you used for input and output.
Those units are probably Dolby B and/or Dolby C. The A-77/II had Dolby
B, if I am not wrong, to record in 3 3/4 ips.
Your A77 was modified for 4-track? Because I only knew models that
were for 1/4" tape in 2 x full-track or 2 x half-track.
I really do not know these Teac models, but there might be some info
on Teac's site.
Carlos E. Martinez
________________________
carlmart@centroin.com.br
From: Gregory Garwin <ggarwin@tuffmail.com>
Subject: Re: Dolby question
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:23:56 -0800
Mike:
The AN-180 is a Dolby B unit. I'm not sure about the others. In order to
decode your encoded tapes properly you will also need to come up with a
Dolby B playback calibration tape. I can't help you there, but I think I
still have an AN-180 manual somewhere if you need anything researched.
Greg
(I can't believe I know the answer
to a question posted here)
From: "Matt Sohn" <mahatma57@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: Dolby Question
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 15:23:51 -0500
Mike,
Dolby B was a consumer format designed for cassettes. Usually reel-to-reel
tapes encoded with Dolby B are masters made for cassette duplication.
The unit you would want for decoding these tapes is the Dolby 422
spec sheet here:
http://www.dolby.com/assets/pdf/tech_library/128_422onesheet.Spec.pdf
or the older model 330 (there's one on ebay right now for $499)
Hope this helps,
Matt S
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Original Message:
From: Mike Parker <mikeparker5@yahoo.com>
Subject: Dolby question
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:23:41 -0800 (PST)
I have a Revox A-77 mkII reel to reel deck, with no
dolby, and a bunch of reels recorded with Dolby B to
transfer. So i've checked out eBay, and have found the
Teac AN-60, AN-180 & AN-300 units for sale. My
question is, are these Dolby A or B? Just says Dolby
on the front of the units. I have read up a little on
the subject, and it seems that Dolby B was a single
band & Dolby A was four bands of boost/adjustment.
Would these machines work for what I need to do, which
is playback home recorded stereo 4-track reels with
Dolby B?
thanks very much,
Mike Parker
From: dattrader@comcast.net
Subject: Opcode DATport Drivers
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 06:11:05 +0000
Would anyone happen to have the floppy disk containing the subject drivers still?
My disk got corrupted and now I don't have a way to install the DATport on an old Win98 box to transfer all my DATs over. Google wasn't much help.
Oh, what about the manual too? :p
From: David McGee <keytohwy@mac.com>
Subject: DDS drive on a Mac
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 22:34:41 -0800
I'm doing it. Using a Sony DDS drive that I bought and flashed the
firmware on. I'm using DATXtract to rip the DATs...works great!
http://pdicamillo.org/~peter/datxtract/
David
> Is there software available to make one of these
> Seagate dat drives work on a Macintosh (10.3.9)?
>
> thanks,
> Mike
From: rappard@dds.nl
Subject: Up for grabs: MiniDisc masters (Beck, Isis)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 13:36:35 +0100 (CET)
I'm moving house soon, and realized I'm not doing anything useful with my
MiniDisc masters - so if you see something you like, drop me a line and
we'll work something out (blank MDs preferred).
Beck 2005-08-06 Amsterdam (one disc)
Isis 2006-07-17 Amsterdam (two discs)
All done Marantz EM-8 > Sharp IM-DR420H.
Regards,
Martin
http://pixieslive.com
From: Kurt Ruthe <kurtruthe@yahoo.com>
Subject: Can I still get the full unrestricted DAT2WAV?
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:13:07 -0800 (PST)
Hi All,=0A=0AIt seems I missed the golden age of DDS by a while, and the DA=
T2WAV Computall Services site is no longer supported. I have submitted an o=
rder for the full unrestricted version but my order and inquiries go unansw=
ered. I have found much in the archives and through Google suggesting you g=
uys might be my last hope. Does anyone know how I can get a full version of=
the program? Could someone please send it too me? Any help would be gratel=
y appreciated!=0A=0AThanks and regards,=0AKurt
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