...help recording O>T>R..!!

Starter of this subject: ...Steve Malley
Last post in this subject: 6/16/2000
Messages in this subject: 3

...Steve Malley

6/16/2000
3 replies

.....enjoy the Big Broadcast but some sunday evenings i cannot be available to listen.....what is the best way to capture the programs on tape so that i can catch them later please??.......many thanks.......steve malley

J.Cooper

6/17/2000
2 replies

I guess you know, you can hook-up your VHS machine, feed in the line from your radio out =put into the VCR machine... tune the radio to that OTR station, place a 6 hour video tape into the VCR machine at set it on EP--long play---and if your vcr machine has the capacity as most have, you can record the SOUND--the audio from the radio onto the VHS cassette, then when you have the time, listen to it by playing it back (naturally without pictures)...and/or connect your radio and put it on record and copy the sound from the VHS tape cassette to your audio cassettes..that is one way to do it if you are going to be away for 5-6 hours,,and put it on and leave, when you come back, you will have the OTR shows! I have done it.... it works! And---That is the way we did it when we had reel-to-reel machines , but you can't buy them anymore, you know, and if you can find one.....gotta have a big bank account!

Jim Stokes

7/9/2000
1 replies

Good advice -- recording the audio on VHS tape. I am impressed by VHS tape's audio recording quality. When doing some audio transfers recently, I went three generations on plain old analog VHS NON-hi-fi mode. And the noise floor was WAAAY down!

I have a couple of 10 1/2-inch open reel machines. I have recorded and stored many an old time radio show off the air and play them back while I work. I work out of my house, so I can get buy with such slovenly office manner! In some ways, it pays to be a self-employed writer!

But getting back to the thread here, recording shows at 3 3/4 speed is a "chancey job," as Matt Dillon would say. You are at the mercy of your recoding tape and the cleanliess of your tape recording path.

Ironically, I have found that plain old 3M acetate or the first polyester tape that 3M made have the least amount of drop out.

But when all is said and done, VHS tape is a fantastic media o which to record audio.

One caveat. Be SURE you don't feed too high a level into your VHS deck. The consumer VHS and the ENG VHS versions have compressor/limiter circuits. And you have to be careful not to feed too high a level into it, othewise, you will get distortion. I don't go more than + 4 dB from my VU meter output across 600 ohms. Some trial and error is needed if you don't have a VU meter.

daniel bacca

10/2/2000
0 replies

I also have used VHS tape, and I must say that the audio quality is very good, BTW, if you are like me and can`t always be around to record programs, you can program your vcr to record at the time of the broadcasts.