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Re: [ARSCLIST] "Difference Track"
I defer to your greater experience, Richard, and based my comment on
long experience with the cassttes I made thousands of duplication
masters on back in the day.
I would only quible that the TASCAM chart is not the last authority,
and would be willing to bet (handshake only) that the original mono
cassette spec has a track that is wider than the stereo head path,
from my experience in the past with hissy right channels on cassettes
made on mono machines. That is, at this point, anecdotal and
historic, and possibly incorrect as to the actual track widths.
But this may be irrelevant to getting good transfers from old
cassettes, though I find the left channel is quieter if no edge
damage occurs.
<L>
Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On Nov 22, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Richard L. Hess wrote:
Hello, Lou,
I find that summing the two stereo tracks, even with the Dragons,
often doesn't work as well as taking one track.
I disagree that the stereo head is wider than the mono, and I offer
the following drawing from Tascam that shows many of the cassette
standards:
http://www.richardhess.com/tape/cass_trk_lrg.gif
In general, if all goes according to plan, I prefer the right
channel if it's there as it gets away from edge damage which is,
alas, common on C120s that some people used for oral histories.
But, I don't think there is a rule. I generally ingest a cassette
in stereo using the Dragons, and then look/listen to the waveform
and make my decision then. Often the two sides require different
solutions.
I don't know of any good mono players that do better than the
Dragons, despite their stereo heads. The added noise from the
narrower head responds quite well to Algorighmix noise-free pro.