Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Id say you can get about 4Khz bandwidth at about 55dB SNR.

Surely better than that with a decent machine, and decent quality tape,
especially if you use Dolby C (or if you can stand the artefacts) dbx
encoding.

Back in the 1980s (I think) I used a Marantz CP430 3-head cassette deck
(powered from NiCds) with a pair of Calrec cardioid mics run from a 48 V box
of NiCds to make recordings of a choir as we travelled all over Europe,
often singing where mains electricity was iffy or non-existent. Provided
the recordings were played back on the same unit, the quality was not bad at
all. I did however use an external LED peak meter rather than depend only
on the machine's mechanical metering.

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