Tape Trail

Master Tapes and The Like

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jcmusic

If you had the means to play these tapes 1/4" 2 track and could afford to pay a moderate price for them, what would be on your go to list to have?

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"All of 'em, Katie." - Bill Way 08:53:13 07/22/19 (0)
And if I had pockets deep enough, I'd get all I could regardless of cost. I did buy one from the ebay "tape lady", which was the Egmont Overture with Abbaddo/Berlin in 15 ips half-track, and it is wonderful.

Ironically, the best tape playback I've heard is digital. Listen to Tom Fine's Plangent remastering of the Saint-Sa�ns 3rd with Paray/Detroit. He played it back with the original 3-track Ampex 350 into a digital session that separated out the bias waveform, and used that waveform to clock the digital session. This effectively negates many imperfections in the tape, like specs on dust on the pinch roller, or any sticktion or wobbles in the tape, as that shows up on the bias waveform. The Plangent-processed Springsteen albums (Darkness and Born to Run) are also pretty great. I am so happy to see Plangent surviving, as it unlocks all sorts of tape goodness we've never heard.

WW
"I'd crawl over twenty miles of bad country to listen to you pee in a tin cup on the telephone." (Jo Carol Pierce)
Master Tapes and The Like - ljb1 07:42:32 07/22/19 (0)
If you want to play it safe with the same old same old commercial recordings (albeit expertly reproduced) you can't go wrong with the Tape Project or Acoustic Sounds. Excellent engineering. If you're adventurous, there's some really stunning recent recordings from International Phonograph (mostly jazz) or Yarlung (classical & jazz). Some may or may not be available in other formats.
ljb

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