<tt>just few notes about transferring DAT recordings to a PC...</tt><br>
<br>
<tt>Many sound boards and external audio devices (USB, FireWire) have digital
IO capabilities to transfer a digital recording to a file.</tt><br>
<br>
<tt>Though, it is important to carefully verify the digital I/O capabilities
of
the board you use: some devices - even expensive - don't perform direct
digital transfer of data but they do perform a real-time sampling rate
conversion (SRC). This might be sometimes useful, for example to downsample
to 44.1kHz a 48kHz DAT recording for CD mastering purposes. Unfortunately,
in these devices, sample rate conversion may occur even if transferring a
48kHz DAT recording to a 48kHz sound file!! This unnecessary data
conversion introduces artifacts that in most cases are not relevant, though
it is preferable to avoid them. To preserve the quality of the original
data the sound boards should lock on the incoming sample rate to transfer
samples to the PC as they arrive, without any sample rate conversion.<br>
Often sound boards' documentation does not provide information about this
feature and only an accurate test can show if SRC occurs.</tt><br>
<br>
<tt>To find cheap cables for digital IO with SONY D7-D8 and others, I suggest
to visit<br>
http:www.core-sound.com</tt><br>
<br>
<tt>Gianni</tt><br>
<br>
<tt></tt><br>
<br>
<tt>At 10.48 24/05/2003 +0100, you wrote:
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As everyone is talking about their equipment at the moment I thought the
following might be of interest:</pre><br>
<pre style="margin: 0em;">Transferring your beautiful DAT data to PC for
review, analysis, creating
"new age" CDs, whatever...</pre><br>
<pre style="margin: 0em;">The Soundblaster Audigy Platinum soundcard has SPDIF
and optical input and
output and is an affordable add-on (alternative soundcard actually) for any
desktop/tower PC with free PCI slots (
<a href="http://www.soundblaster.com/products/audigy/";
rel="nofollow">http://www.soundblaster.com/products/audigy/</a> ). Audiowerk 8
by Emagic is a
dedicated card for recording and producing multitrack sound which also has
excellent SPDIF input and output facilities - think it might have been
discontinued however as can't find any for sale. Shame. If anyone would
like to play with one, I have a spare, but I'd recommend the Audigy for ease
of use any day.</pre><br>
<pre style="margin: 0em;">For many, the Sony Datman range is still the
recorder of choice for many (I
use a TCD7, current model is TCD10 -
<a href="http://www.canford.co.uk/catalogue/pdf_files/page615.pdf";
rel="nofollow">http://www.canford.co.uk/catalogue/pdf_files/page615.pdf</a> ).
Interestingly,
this model has a non-standard SPDIF port and you need to spend a fortune
buying one from SONY, unless you deal with an alternative vendor like:
<a
href="http://dvdrecorder.american-digital.com/prodsite/category.asp?c=175&name=Klo";
rel="nofollow">http://dvdrecorder.american-digital.com/prodsite/category.asp?c=175&name=Klo</a>
neCables. I bought mine off someone else, based in the USA, who makes them
even cheaper (and really cheap optical cables too) but I can't find the
invoice. If anyone is interested in this kind of product, please send me a
personal email and I'll dig out the information ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).</pre><br>
<tt>Regards</tt><br>
<br>
<pre style="margin: 0em;">Howie Watkins
Gower Marine Mammal Project
Sound Recordist
www.gmmp.org.uk</pre><br>
<pre style="margin: 0em;">--
Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora.
William of Ockham (ca. 1286 - 1347)
Gianni Pavan
Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Centro Interdisciplinare di Bioacustica e Ricerche Ambientali
Universita' degli Studi di Pavia
Via Taramelli 24, 27100 PAVIA, ITALIA
Tel/Fax +39-0382-525234
Web <a href="http://www.unipv.it/cibra";
rel="nofollow">http://www.unipv.it/cibra</a></pre><br>
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