Re: [ARSCLIST] Glitchy dats

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And yet I've had minimal failure with the hundreds of DATs I've used over the last
13 years, apart from errors that occurred at the time (recycled dats were cheaper
than new ones back then, but some machines didn't do an effective job of erasing
the old material perfectly..I also found Sony PDP 124s had higher error rates than
others).

dl

Marie Azile O'Connell wrote:

> 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
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>
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