Need Tape To Tape Copies Made

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I have three 10 inch reels of 1/2 inch tape that heve sticky shed. I am going to bake them and would like to do a straight transfer of the 8 traks to another half inch machine onto either Emtec EMGI 911 or TSR Magnetic tape. Anyone know where I can get this done? I am in the Atlanta area. Would prefer delivering the tapes personally.
 
Not a lot of call for tape to tape...typically its tape to digital transfers which is what Sonicraft specializes in as well as tape restoration, but Steve Puntolillo is the bomb IMHO...extremely high standards and top notch gear. If you go that route your tapes will be handled with utmost care and your copies will be the best they can be.
 
Why the need to transfer to another analog tape generation? It will only increase noise, wow and flutter, distortion, dropout etc. And if the tapes had NR encoding, unless you make very accurate copies, there could be two potential sources of NR artifacts instead of one.

You already have your analog tape warmth if that was important, so there seems no need to re record to tape yet again for even more "warmth". A good digital transfer will sound like the tape itself. No better, no worse. You can do all your mixing from that with all the benefits of digital editing.

I suspect that's the advice others would generally give you.

My 2 cents worth
 
Thanks for the advice. I did not know if my computer could handle a multi-track program. I'm running Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 3 installed. I havew A 2.4 GHZ processor(Pentium 4). I have an 80 GB Hard Drive with 21 GB in use. I also have istalled a sound Blaster Live 8400 sound card. Will this handle the right program or software?
 
If you only have two channel capability you will need to rewind and do two tracks at a time and sync them together. Or if you use a mixer you can do all 8 at once.
 
dodgeaspen said:
If you only have two channel capability you will need to rewind and do two tracks at a time and sync them together. Or if you use a mixer you can do all 8 at once.
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I have a 16 channel mixer with a right and left stereo out to my computer. I would need to have all 8 tracks separate on the computer in order to mix them to stereo. Is this possible?
 
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