Winkie Pratney Revival Library & YWAM Tyler Audio Cassette Digitizing

Sunday, April 17, 2016 7:45 pm to 8:45 pm, 11:20- Twenty tapes done so far.  About 150 in the first big batch so this is okay progress.  If I came over every day maybe in a couple months I'd be done.  That's still too slow so I need to figure out how to speed up the workflow. Realized I was going to take forever doing only two tapes at a time so I figured out a way to get four at once by racking. Hopefully the decor isn't hurt too much. Starting logging tape counter length for each tape.  Think this might be helpful in identifying similar source tape stock and make me a bit more aware of the content issues.  Not sure if it might just be a waste of time. :) Also started logging "tapes played since last head cleaning." Really need to upgrade the iMac's internal HDD to Solid State Drive (SSD) since right now it takes about two minutes per tape -- about 10 minutes for each batch of four now -- just to save the wave files. Started at sometime right be...

April 14-16, 2016 Work Log Finally configured Motu 828 mk3 to digitize on the iMac 4,1 (27"?). Special thanks for David Gagnon, formally of YWAM Madison & YWAM Madison Podcasts, for suggestion this sort of set up. Problem was the TASCAM CC-222 MKIII units have two sets of RCA line outputs.  But like VHS/DVD combo units this Cassette Deck and CD-R combo unit uses one L/R output only for the CD-R and the second for the cassette deck. So the main issue was that the Motu unbalanced phono had to come from the left/right RCA cable on the cassette deck using OUTPUT #2 -! Found  CueMix FX app on Mac to help set inputs. Originally set trim input to +17 dbi for first two tapes. Then +16 dpi for another set or two. Found the bumper audio on one tape clipped (but never Winkie) so lowered the trim boost to +14 dbi. Tried to use the Motu AudioDesk software and gave up and went to the Audacity.  May wish to revisit that software. Settled on path as follows: T...