DAT sourced or PCM/VHS sourced?

Is it possible for someone to tell based on a sample if a wav file came from a bad DAT transfer or a 1980s PCM/VHS transfer?

 

when you say bad, do you have noise issues like digital static?

 

have the DAT ran again to wav.

 

I don't have the DAT or whatever it came from, only Wav files and yes there's static. I'm trying to figure out where the Wav came from, and what the noise is.

Here is a snippet.

Dropbox - where did this come from.wav »

 

If you don't have the source and don't know what the source is, it could potentially be anything. Digi static was common on DAT though...

 

yes, more so than pcm/vhs.

 

Is that what the snippet I posted sounds like to you?

 

sounds to me like hot levels on a cassette then ran to PCM which may have some tracking issues.