Can I destroy my originals after I digitize them?
Jill Hurst-Wahl in her excellent blog “Digitization 101” asks this question and provides some good answers with reasons. You can read it here.
September 20, 2007
September 12, 2007
Playback of NAB 2-track tapes on a DIN Stereo (Butterfly) head
I received a query from Sweden today asking
I have a Studer machine with butterfly heads with which I’d like to reproduce
tapes recorded with normal two track heads. Theoretically, how much more noise,
in dB, would I get from playing the “empty” part of the tape?
Let’s look at the assumptions.