These are the only two tapes I didn’t transfer myself. I didn’t think it was worth investing in a used DAT deck that could potentially eat the tapes and ruin them, so I ended up using an Illinois studio to perform the transfer.

These two tapes have the same tracks on them. One was a master, and one was a copy. The recording engineers in 1993 had the foresight to place the recordings on two different tape brands and arranged them in a different order. This proved very useful because there were issues with both tapes performing the transfer. When I received the 16/44.1 WAV files from the studio, there were some total sound dropouts and digital distortion on a few songs, possibly due to sticky shed syndrome. However, because of the way the tracks were arranged, I was able to edit and salvage all 14 tracks between the master and copy tapes. The only processing that has been done to this final audio is some trimming of the beginning/ends and dB normalization.