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Originally Posted by Matt Syson  Hi
I transcribed a colleague of my wife's tape a while back using my TEAC X10.
The tape was about 40 years old and very fragile, it snapped if I let the reels take up any slack themselves. The hum to signal ratio was bad (more recorded hum than there was signal) and the speed was not constant (recorded).
When in digital I could use 200 Hz filter (shelving) to get rid of the hum (it was spoken word).
There was no treble!
Matt S |
That sounds very similar to the sound of the tape I just transferred. It dirtied up the heads alot, had lots of hiss and hum and all the treble was gone. It was hard work to get anything useable off it ( recorded at 1 7/8" part of the time and 7 1/2" the rest of the time). Mostly spoken word stuff.