Posted by Mike Rivers on 01/11/15 11:45

Charles Tomaras wrote:

> I have a couple boxes full of EIAJ Sony 601ES digital jazz recordings from
> the mid 80's that are no longer playable. TDK VHS video tape.

They probably aren't easily listenable because of dropouts, but they're
likely to be salvageable if they're worth the trouble. You can often
get longer segments to play by fiddling with the tracking control on
the VCR, or in worse cases, chasing around with the drum alignment. Try
it enough times and you'll probably get every segment of the program
played. Then allyagottadois paste them together in your DAW and burn a
CD (that'll be good for at least another ten years <g>).

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