Which decks can downsample?

[sfbp]

I always knew there was a reason my JE-630 was special. Tonight I received an ancient cassette recording of some music with the aim of resurrecting it and cleaning it up. Unfortunately there were many defects, and I can only hope that fixing them one by one will get rid of the awful sound that I associate with so many recordings from 25 years ago. The channels were out of balance by about 3dB, and there was a hum clearly recorded on the tape. These can be magicked away albeit at the cost of rounding errors

The one I almost couldn't deal with was that the recording had been made too fast, that is the resulting tape played UNDER pitch and too slow.

I figured out to fix this in software and I tried a small sample.... it was a royal pain in the &*(). However the JE-630 is the only one of the decks I have that allows changing the playback pitch to HIGHER than the original. Granted the N505 will increase the pitch and speed, but only in fairly large quanta. So I was very grateful that the JE-630 allowed me to do this.

It remains to be seen if the patient will be alive after the operation.

Does anyone else possess or know of a deck that has this feature?

Stephen

[PhilippeC]

Does anyone else possess or know of a deck that has this feature?

Stephen

Just search "pitch control" on http://www.minidisc.org/deck_table.html

[sfbp]

Did that. Many decks have it and the page doesn't mention. But worse, in several cases it doesn't specify if the pitch control goes higher or (the default) only lower. I found a few more, but it's necessary to actually look in the manual each time, and I gave up being systematic. My JB980, my JE640 and my MXD-D400 all refuse to do it.

The MDS-E10 does it, the JA50ES does not. There appears to be no particular rhyme or reason to this.

Edit: I was beginning to suspect something about decks with MDLP. What the above decks have in common is they won't change the pitch of MDLP. Interesting! There is something fundamentally different about MDLP compared to SP, perhaps? Anyhow what I wanted to add was this: the MDS-E10 refuses to go to HIGHER pitch on MDLP, although it will still do lower pitch (actually not as far as the others, but it's not important to my purposes anyway).