digital to analog help!

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i hope this in the right forum but:

im picking up a tape duplicator for a label im starting up. will be recording digitally then looking to convert it to tape and duplicate/distribute.

whats the best way to record from digital set up to tape?

thanks
 
I'm not sure what your looking for. What are you recording? Why are you recording in digital and distributing in analog? What is your budget? What is your set up? These are a few things we need to know before we can help.
 
miroslav said:
Take a stereo pair out from your soundcard into the L/R of the tape deck...hit PLAY on the DAW and RECORD on the tape deck. :)
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sounds easy enough, thats what i thought would be easiest. will sound qualit still be good/decent?



my current set up is a presonus firepod into logic. with other variou preamps and effects modules in the chain. so i could easily output from the firepod in stereo to a tape deck.

now to find a tape deck, and good ideas on ones for around 50$?
 
bstarstudios said:
will sound qualit still be good/decent?

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now to find a tape deck, and good ideas on ones for around 50$?
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You get what you pay for. ;)

Since you are talking about distributing it on tape...I'm going to assume you are referring to cassette tapes...?

WHY use cassette tapes for distro...??? :confused:

The cost of a cassette tape is more than the cost of a blank CD....and you will only degrade the quality going from the DAW to a cassette tape.
Not to mention...how many people still own cassette decks for listening to music?
(The guys that use cassette porta-studios for recording...don't count :D )
 
im distributing via casette tape and CD. just go give clients an option. most will use cd's but i like to make tape copies for myself.
 
Oh...well that's cool.

If you like tape and it's just for your own listening pleasure...you might want to get a decent 1/4" 2-track reel-to-reel instead of a cassette deck....it will sound much better.

If you get a pretty good one...you could even use it for stereo mixdowns for all you stuff...then bounce back into the DAW for burning CDs.

Some decent Otari decks can be found on eBay in the $300 range...
 
thats sweet, my business parter and i cancelled the tape distro just now (not worth the cash), but ima def look into a cheap reel to reel for my own pleasurws.
 
Wait a second. You mean you're going to start a label and you don't have such a basic knowledge of recording a digital track onto an analog recorder? Yikes talk about putting the cart before the horse!
 
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