skippy
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I'm getting back into recording after a little over a decade on hiatus. I have the room completed, and am getting ready to purchase a digital multitrack (probably the Fostex D1624). MY problem is this: I have about 20 hours of basics on 1/2" 8-track, recorded on an old Tascam 38 with a dbx 158 TypeII noise reduction unit. I no longer have any of that equipment, having sold it off years ago, but I'd like to salvage some of those basics: stripe it onto the new digital stuff so that I can mung away with this here newfangled modern technology, and go from there.
Problem is, I can easily borrow a compatible tape machine, and probably get the heads tweeked so that I can scrape most of whatever's left of my signal off the tape. However, I haven't been able to locate the dbx box. They seem to have gone the way of the dodo around these parts, like razor blades and splicing tape...
Whaddaya think? Has somebody done some spiffy DAW software plugin that will properly uncompress stuff tracked with the old dbx NR? I know absolutely nothing about that stuff. I *really* don't want to have to do the ebay thing and buy a crufty old dust-filled 158 just to reproduce this stuff: cash is too tight, and salvaging this stuff has to be regarded as a luxury.
Anyone else ever run into this problem, and if so, how did you handle it?
Problem is, I can easily borrow a compatible tape machine, and probably get the heads tweeked so that I can scrape most of whatever's left of my signal off the tape. However, I haven't been able to locate the dbx box. They seem to have gone the way of the dodo around these parts, like razor blades and splicing tape...
Whaddaya think? Has somebody done some spiffy DAW software plugin that will properly uncompress stuff tracked with the old dbx NR? I know absolutely nothing about that stuff. I *really* don't want to have to do the ebay thing and buy a crufty old dust-filled 158 just to reproduce this stuff: cash is too tight, and salvaging this stuff has to be regarded as a luxury.
Anyone else ever run into this problem, and if so, how did you handle it?
