[OT]Digital Audio on DAT into PC

["Mark Harrison (Groups)" <mph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Odd question this.

I have a DAT I recorded (of the Christmas Carol service at church.) I'd
like to get that onto, inter alia, a CD (also MP3s for the church
website.)

I did have the nouse to do the original recording at 44.1 :-)

I'm wondering what the best way to get it onto a PC is? One option is to
borrow a PC from a friend over the weekend - with a copy of Adobe
Audition (formerly know as CoolEdit Pro), and a Soundblaster Live
(SP/DIF in version), and input from there.

On looking more closely at the way that Audition works, however, it
appears that the only way to import to WAV from SP/DIF is to pass the
SP/DIF in through the SBL mixer, and then record from there.

What I'm not sure is whether doing this will create a native grab of the
digital stream or, and, I fear this may be the case, be the nasty hybrid
of some windows "back and forth" algorithm that introduces stuff
like
jitter errors (the clocks in the DAT and the PC are, obviously, not
locked.)

Then it struck me - I have a DAT drive sitting on the shelf. If I could
get that working, then SURELY it would have the capability to read the
DAT-Audio information, and mangle it into a WAV file.

Alternatively, is there some deep hidden option with Audition that takes
in a PCM over SP/DIF stream and uses IT as the clock master (if you see
what I mean)?

Any ideas?

Mark