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Rednroll wrote on 3/27/2004, 11:58 PM
never heard of anything that plays at 1 7/8 ips or 3 7/8 ips, only 7.5 ips, 15 ips, and 30 ips. Anyways, yes you can use Vegas by right clicking on the track event and select pitch change, you probably want the "change pitch and duration" setting. Then lower the pitch on all the tracks the same amount.
Cold wrote on 3/28/2004, 7:48 AM
Though for better results, find an old reel to reel that plays at the proper speed and bring it in properly. Depends on how many tapes you have at this speed. If it's only one tape try it through vegas. If you have a couple of boxes of them it may be worth doing some research on building a varispeed for your machine or tracking down a machine as close to the original as possible. I'm guessing there isn't a hope in hell there's alignment tones on the tape? If you do it in vegas expect some artifacts from the conversion, and expect to have to apply some eq to make up the difference in freq response. If the tape has tones this is simpler, no tones much more difficult.
Steve S.
bunyabunya wrote on 3/29/2004, 7:32 AM
You guessed right, no tones; and there are about 200 tapes, from the 1960s. Thanks, based on what you said I will try to add a good tape recorder that plays at 17/8 ips. I have four old beat up ones I got from my father, and got on eBay, but none work. Looking for reconditioned ones that are reliable and have good sound.

Some tape recordings--like of cutting down a dead 130 ft larch tree in MT--were made at the same time as 8mm movies--but just by accident, we are not talking sound man here. I want to add these clips as audio tracks to transfers of the films, digitized through a neat machine called a Workprinter, then put into Vegas.