Greetings,

If the four track is a stereo cassette, this is fine but if a Library of
congress format recording, you will need a program such as goldWave to
reverse the track recorded on one chanel each side as playing on a standard
cassette stereo machine will play it backwards.

I will explain.

Bear in mind I live in the UK where we drive on the left side of the road.

If you imagine a cassette stereo tape like a dual carridge way, i.e two
lanes of traffic on each side of the reservation in the middle, reading them
from left to right, let's call them 1, 2, 3 and 4, 1 and 2 going the same
direction next to each other, 3 and 4 going in the opposite direction but
still next to each other.

When the cassette tape is playing, side 1 is tracks 1 and 2, 1 being the
left and 2 the right chanel.  when playing side2, track 4 is the left and 3
the right chanel.

Library of Congress format when you record on side 1, records on chanel 1
and 3, when on side 2, chanels 2 and 4.  In consequence, when such cassettes
are played on a normal stereo machine, in the left chanel you normally hear
the recording running forwards, in the right chanel, you hear the recording
from the other side running backwards.

Therefore, a program such as GoldWave can pick up chanel 2 and 3
independently and it can reverse them, thus giving you the four chanels the
right way round but remember you will still have them out-of-sequence, 1 3 2
4.  Therefore, if recordings need to be put into sequence, you need to paste
them together in the right order.

If a normal stereo recording, no problem, just take it from the cassette
using the line chord as explained before.


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