<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Aloha kakou. One thing to be careful of in converting from cassette and even reel-to-reel is to know what kind of noise reduction, if any, was used during the recording process. Dobly B, Dolby C, and DBX were all popular in their days. It is sometimes best to make sure that you have same NR selected in the digitization process, though I've generally been happier with the results when I have no NR selected on the playback machine. If the tapes aren't marked you may have to make a few digital samples with each type of NR. I've found it fairly easy to recognize when the NR formats are not in alignment by just listening to playback.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Keola</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 24 Iul. 2007, at 11:06 AM, Nicholas Thieberger wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT color="#000000">For what it's worth, my experience of digitizing files by myself may be useful. I just connected the computer and the tape recorder and did the work that way, but the files produced by doing this were not great. This is because the analog to digital converter in computers is not very good.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000">But I used Transcriber to link to those files, and then later I had an archive digitize them at the sort of quality they needed, using thebest equipment. So then my Transcriber files didn't link to the better quality files. And since I want my transcriptions to relate to the files that will be around in the long term, I then had to realign my transcripts and audio.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000">The lesson for me is that I should have made the best possible digital version of the cassette to begin with, before I put all the time into transcribing it. 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"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">Keola Donaghy</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; 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