Re: [ARSCLIST] Glitchy dats

["Watsky, Lance" <lwatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Marie,

I noticed that you are now in Hollywood, send me an e-mail or phone call
so that we can arrange to  meet. I might be able to help you find a
place to live. Have you found work out here, yet or are you still
searching?

Regards,
Lance Watsky
Program Coordinator
UCLA Moving Image Archive Studies
www.mias.ucla.edu
310.206.4966
FAX 310.825.3383




 

-----Original Message-----
From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
[mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marie Azile O'Connell
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 9:58 AM
To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Glitchy dats

DAT's have long been known to be prone to this.  Their life span is
about 10 years.  Back at RNZ Sound Archives/Nga Taonga Korero we made a
concerted effort to get everything off DAT as fast as possible and on to
CD-R.  I did about 1300 myself, but on the original machine it was
recorded on.  I don't think you are doing anything wrong at all, it is
just that "DATs are Crap"!

Cheers
Marie
(stationed in Hollywood, looking for a place to live and fighting the
traffic!)



Quoting David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> I've been sent a load of DATs to transfer to CD for auditioning, and I

> find that a number of them dating from 1996 have glitches. I don't 
> know if there's one brand more prone than others since I'm not 
> monitoring consistently, but they do seem to turn up on Sony PDP-124s.

> Anyone have similar experiences?
> Any
> thoughts on whether this was a bad brand (I had problems with it 
> myself) or if it was a matter of us not thoroughly erasing the tapes 
> before using them or not fast forwarding or rewinding them before 
> using them?
> 
> dl
> 


Marie O'Connell
Sound Archivist/Sound Engineer/Sound Consultant

Mobile: 601-329-6911