Working DAT machine…broken DAT machine…working DAT machine once again. All in a 5 hour window. I love 1990’s recording technology even more now that I am not afraid to get inside of it and beat it back into shape.
After successfully transferring an entire archived tape of Impossible Gardens’ recordings from 2003 (Mike V and my old ambient guitar duo), the Denon DTR-2000 DAT deck decided to eat the next tape. Fantastic. Opened it up, couldn’t ix it, but salvaged the DAT tape after some intense swearing. It needs some ironing (repeated fast forwarding and rewinding, not starch), but hopefully some of it plays at some point in the future. I’d hate to loose an hour and a half of recordings, dammit.
Fixed the DAT deck after attempting to do so for an hour. So I am sitting here listening to The Me Generation, Live at the Rusty Nail, 11-14-02, and all is well (hey Tim and Mike, this show sounds really good! Need to do something with it for fun!).
So I am going to attempt to continue bringing these tapes into Digital Performer via analog at 24-bit / 96K resolution, with the full-force of 1990’s digital technology working against me. How funny is it that right now I am listening to The Me Generation, on DAT, cover “Don’t Let Me Down”?