Digital transfer is the only way to go. Firstly you avoid the D to A in the DAT machine and the A to D of your interface. Also if a loud sound comes along you don't know about you will clip on the way in. Do it properly and stop being lazy!

The DtoA is using the DAT deck's old convertors.

I'll bet the convertor in your Sound Blaster is better than the converter in the DAT deck.



Just sayin.

I just wanted to say Sound Blaster.


There... I did it again.

:-)






edit the spelling of Sound Blaster. There... I did it again.

mike_mccue


The DtoA is using the DAT deck's old convertors.

I'll bet the convertor in your Sound Blaster is better than the converter in the DAT deck.



Just sayin.

Yup.

mike_mccue


You got DAT right.






Are you gonna replace the drums and emulate a con-soul on yer catalouge?

First I gotta check 'em all with ARC 2 before I make those heady decisions. With pure digital copies I should be able to make more educated decisions, no?

bapu

mike_mccue


You got DAT right.






Are you gonna replace the drums and emulate a con-soul on yer catalouge?

First I gotta check 'em all with ARC 2 before I make those heady decisions. With pure digital copies I should be able to make more educated decisions, no?

 
What's the ADAT model?
 
If it has varispeed you should be able to halve the transfer time.
 
If you had a Toslink cable I would think you could have done 8 tracks a time too.
Which would equal (Transfer Time / 8 / (Varispeed to the power of 2))
 
In other words it would only have taken you 17 milli dulcimers instead of 82 hours, roughly.
 
If you'd have hidden behind your speakers you could have just about heard it coming out of your video wall.
 
Don't forget to wear bicycle clips when transfering audio too, they are available from all good music retailers.  Download them first don't ever stream them, especially if you are after a secret nashville tuning which changes according to the length of the string.
 
If in doubt look at any Roland financial chart for reference.

It's a 2 track Panasonic SV3700* DAT not an an 8 track ADAT.

It has TOS/Link and AES/EBU but not lightpipe.

My RME Fireface UFX has AES/EBU and the 2xADAT I/O (not the 1xADAT I/O and SPDIF option).

So I connected a high quality XLR to the out of DAT (AES/EBU) and the IN of the RME (AES/EBU). Selected AES/EBU in SONAR (as a test). Hit record, started the DAT. No signal. Checked my Total Mix software (which controls the RME) and the levels are set but no signal is getting in.

Sheesh, anyone but me can do this.

I'm gonna have to fly Mooch out here. He'll get it done for me by 9:00AM this Saturday morning.



*In another fred I called it an SV3800. I was mistaken (not wrong). See? It's been that long since I even looked at this box.

They are straight though XLR cables?

maybe this:

http://www.gearslutz.com/...v-3700-dat-player.html

Have fun!

I'll bet the convertor in your Sound Blaster is better than the converter in the DAT deck.

I think thats a stretch............................................

New backup plan.

I'm finishing up my analog conversion.

I'll give the machine and my tapes to Jan's friend. If he can get them digitally transferred great. If not at least I have "something".

Man I've been spot checking some of the stuff. Of course, it sounds pretty good to me. I wished I had all the raw tracks for some of this stuff (I have some but not all) as I've learned a lot since the 80s and 90s. Sadly the ones I'd really like to mix are the ones from my analogue tape days and those are the ones I never transferred to ADATs when I made the transition. As well I do not have the MIDI taht was sync'd to the tape. I have nearly all my ADAT raw tracks though. It appears I've lost a few ADAT songs along the way. Not sure why. I rarely recorded over anything.