"Tape" speed

[MacSean112]

I've been asked to archive reel-to-reel tapes originally recorded in the mid 60s. I'd like to use my 001 and Pro Tools LE to give them a good digital cleaning.

Problem is, many of the tapes were recorded at 3 3/4 speed. Is there anyway I can achieve 3 3/4 speed playback from within Pro Tools LE?

[archtop]

Speed has nothing to do w/pt
you need to play them at 3/, 3/4 ips on a reel to reel

new one probably won't go that slow, find an old one

[MacSean112]

Originally posted by archtop:
Speed has nothing to do w/pt
you need to play them at 3/, 3/4 ips on a reel to reel

new one probably won't go that slow, find an old one

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Pro Tools allows you to record and playback at half speed.

That said, I don't think a 3 3/4 ips reel-to-reel deck has been manufactured in the last X amount of years, which is why I posted my question here.

There must be some way to achieve the desired playback spped digitally.

[archtop]

So let me get his straight,
your going to thread your magnetic tape into pro tools,
without a reel to reel? [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]
This I gotta see [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[Burton]

If you're asking if you can play the 3 3/4 ips tapes on a faster playback deck and then correct the pitch in PT, the answer is "yes." You could digitally slow the tapes back to proper pitch. The problem is that with that extreme a speed correction, there would be an extreme amount of digital artifacts, and the quality of the recording after digital processing would be horrendous. So while it is possible, it's not practical.

[TooLoud]

If I understand you correctly, you are hoping that there is some plugin in PT that will allow you to dump the tracks in at the speed your deck is and then slow them down? There are plugs like Serato's Pitch'n Time, and Digi has their own plug for doing this but I'm not sure you would be happy with the end result as the file goes through some radical changes to get there. Pitch'n Time will sound better than the Digi plug, but still...