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In Reply to: Re: Playback Equalization posted by kingseiko on May 14, 2005 at 07:17:39:
Setting the tape selector switch on your deck to "Chrome" sets the deck's recording bias level for Type II tape, however, unless you are going to record it is the setting of the playback equalization (either 120usec or 70usec) that affects the sound you hear.Your own recordings made on Chrome (Type II) tape using this same deck sound brighter because:
1.- The tape is a better quality Type II tape than the formulation used in the commercial pre-recorded music tape.
2. - Your deck is a high quality machine with separate recording and playback heads.
3.- The deck is properly setup for the correct bias level for this brand of tape, optimizing the frequency response of any recordings to approach the limits of the tape formulation and the deck
4. - You are recording in real-time, not at 64:1 or whatever duplicating speed the commercial tape duplicator uses
5. - You are careful about setting recording levels so that the peaks of the music do not go beyond the 0db reference level by more than 2~3db for Type II tape. If you backed off on the recording level you would get even better high frequency response from the tape recording but the noise level would start to be audible.
6. - Because you are recording and playing the tape on the same machine, there no issue with matching the azimuth of the playback head to the alignment of a different machine. At cassette speeds and tape width, an azimuth misalignment of even 15 minutes of angle of one degree between the recording head of one machine and the playback head of a second machine will cause a pronounced loss in high frequency response at 20Khz.
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- Re: Playback Equalization - mkmelt 11:40:30 05/14/05 (1)
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