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Spent a little quality time Friday dubbin' a small cache of holiday music from commercial quarter-track tapes into (gasp!) the digital domain. All but one of the tapes, perhaps surprisingly for relatively modern 'pop' music, were 7-1/2 ips.I need to redo the 3-3/4 ips one, in fact (Glen Campbell)... the poor ol' Sony that 'volunteered' to do the ripping (as the kids call it nowadays, I think) got kind of tired and sluggish playing the second side of the tape. Either that, or poor ol' Glen was on 'ludes, or channeling Paul Robeson, when he recorded the second side. :-)
EDIT: The Otari & the ReVox in the background are, unfortunately in the present case, half-track machines. Well, OK, the Otari has a quarter-track playback head... but it won't (AFAIK) play at 3-3/4 ips :-P
all the best,
mrh
Edits: 12/11/17Follow Ups:
Spinning a tape I made recently of Steven Wilson's new album To The Bone on my Studer A810
Rob
"Let there be songs, to fill the air"
You might take a good look at the Sony's guides and heads for oxide build-up.
On the other hand, it's Glen Campbell, so I'm just sayin'.
Harry Connick has a Christmas CD from about 2008 which is quite good, and has my friend Roger Ingram on lead trumpet.
:)
Yeah, it's not a great Christmas album, actually.
I cleaned the tape path pretty well when I found this one -- I reckon it needs the usual internal de-gunking, but I haven't investigated any further.
I think I'm going to try this TEAC next ;-)
all the best,
mrh
... with that Scotch 207. I've found it to be a veritable poster child for Sticky Shed Syndrome. One reel of the stuff brought an Otari to a complete halt and cleaning up the mess was NOT my idea of fun.
I had lots of those that I bought in the 70's which are basically useless to me now. Funny thing is the AGFA, Maxell, Memorex are still good although they have some sign of sticking as well.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
nt
all the best,
mrh
Actually, the Otari will play beautifully at 3 3/4 ips (2-track and 4-track). Assuming it's configured like mine.
But they sure didn't make it easy. For starters, you have to take the back off. Then, if you have a manual, you look in it to find out where the small hole is (in a PC board) into which you insert a probe to switch the deck from high speed operation (7 1/2 plus 15 ips) to low speed (3 3/4 plus 7 1/2 ips).
This is only one of several reasons you kinda need easy access to the rear of the deck. Say, if you'd like to be able to switch equalization from NAB to IEC/CCIR. Heaven only knows why they did it this way. At least you don't have to remove the rear panel (the slide switches are below the panel).
For the speed change, a lot of Otari owners simply cut an appropriately located hole in the back panel rather than taking it off. Me, I just leave it off
I salute your noble efforts :-)
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