Posted by Scott Dorsey on 03/10/06 13:58

In article <1141964621.893020.37070@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
<muzician21@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Don't have a mini-disk, certainly not going to invest in one for this.
>With all the complications it seems like this might entail, since I
>think she's probably only doing one or two sets jeez, I might even just
>take a cassette tape deck I have with adjustable gain, run the board
>into that - shouldn't be a big trick, right? - then kludge it onto the
>video later with another deck I have that has adjustable speed, riding
>the speed adjust as it plays to match it to the video. I've done it
>before on other things with pretty decent results. As it starts to
>drift, nudge it just a hair. Once I get it matched up, the tape noise
>either wouldn't really matter or could be cleaned up simply enough with
>software and reattached with Virtualdub.

Cassette deck won't keep speed accurately enough... back in the seventies
folks tried running cassettes wild and it was no fun at all. How about
a laptop with an audio interface? Or how about asking the sound guy to
do all the hard stuff and send you a file?
--scott


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