Tape Trail

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In Reply to: RE: Reels are for analog tape recorders only... posted by John Elison on January 31, 2021 at 08:02:31

That machine will take up to 14" reels.

Many companies made such reel to reel professional tape machines. Their beauty is in ease of tape editing - you do it the same way, as the analog tapes are edited. Studer also made a fancy digital tape recorder. Many famous albums were recorded on machines like that.

Obsolete... yes... but so are tubes, fountain pens, fidelity and many other things. :)

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RE: Take a look at my video - John Elison 10:48:51 01/31/21 (1)
> Their beauty is in ease of tape editing - you do it the same way, as the analog tapes are edited.

I think it's all in your outlook. In my opinion, that's the most difficult way to edit a digital recording. The easiest way is with TASCAM's Hi-Res Editor or some other type of editing software.

I own one of the finest Hi-Res digital recorders available, the TASCAM DA-3000 DSD recorder. It records onto solid-state flash drives that are reliable and cost only a small fraction of a reel of your tape. Furthermore, a single SD memory card will hold ten times the amount of music as one of your largest reels of tape.

If you like your tape recorder, that's fine. However, you won't find anyone else using one these days and you don't need to try to convince me to buy one. I've already got the best digital recorder for my purposes.

Thanks!
John Elison
- Am I? - Victor Khomenko 11:27:13 01/31/21 (0)
  Am I trying to convince you of anything? :) Hardly.
  You have to be a collector in order to appreciate a machine like that Sony. Clearly, it was used for editing, as witnessed by the splicing block. Hard to do? How do you think the recording engineers survived before the editing software? :) We need to learn to appreciate the labor of those before us. Millions of albums that we listen to today were created with a razor blade and splicing tape. It is, actually, not too hard, you can watch some videos.
  As the forum's name indicates, it is for the dinosaurs, who still play tapes and listen through tubes. :) Solid State Memory? What's that? :)
  This is like telling people on philatelist forum about email conveniences. :)
  
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Dad used to tell me... - kootenay 10:01:27 01/31/21 (0)
Things only become obsolete if you don't have a use for them. He used to mow his 3/4 acre lawn using the push reel mower and this is in the middle of the '80s when the electric lawn mower was available.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)

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