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In Reply to: Archiving Audio Tapes posted by AlF on October 23, 2000 at 03:56:32 PM:

Alf,
It sounds like you're going to want to do the transfer direct to CD just because of the sheer number of tapes you need to transfer.

To go through the PC by recording to Hard Disk and then writing to CD would be good if you needed to harness the power of the PC for Noise reduction or editing, but if all you want to do is straight transfer - I'd go with the direct to CD approach.

The 24bit recording ideology will make a difference. If you wanted to record the CDs as CD-Audio 16bit (the standard) then obviously you'd need to do a bit-rate reduction before the audio gets written to CD. This may or may not make a difference as to how long it takes to transfer to CD due to the processes involved.

For a simple transfer, again, I'd go for the basic direct to CD transfer at 16bit.

What I have done in the past is archive old tapes to WAV files and I burn these to CD as CD-ROMs of WAV files. Then I can open it in any editor I want to later, edit _ do stuff with it, and then when I'm ready I can make CDs from that. That may not be what you're looking for but its what I've done anyways.

I am not familiar with any of the gear you described, sorry.

As you probably are already aware, the tapes will probably add some unwanted analog noise to your CD transfer so it might be a good idea to either use some NR inline with your duplication process or perform some NR later on.

Later _ Good luck
Eddie

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