I'm approaching the five year mark in my archiving project. It's entailed organizing, documneting, and converting over 700 audio recordings to CD's. These span the distance from the mid 1950's to the 1980's. This collection will be released to the public in the next few months in collaboration with the U.W. (University of Washington, USA).

In my thousands of hours of digitizing work, the system I've found that works best for me, be it R/R tapes, or cassette tapes, is to play the original recording into my "Marantz" digitizor, model # CDR631. This machine allows me to "tweak" the recording as I need. I can boost the volume, diminish the volume, create "breaks" during live concert recordings, etc.

When done, this machine spits out a very high quality CD with which I can then work to build the final archive.

I hope this helps ... bob(deckman)nelson