Posts Tagged ‘Tape’

Greg Wilson editing tape – ARTE Tracks, August 2007

Freaky montage by JTHZ. 80s tape cuts played back on a ReVox B77, using Maxell tape, BASF PW 384 stickers. Used for this were: Tighten Up/I Just Can’t Stop Dancin’ – Wally Jump jr./Arthur Baker, Reach Up – Tony Lee, The Right Stuff – Brian Ferry, and parts of Macho Mozart – The Latin Rascals Audio is available as MP3 here: audio.jthz.com

Tape, Digitize, Align! TaDA: it’s analog magic for your DAW. This video shows how you can integrate your analog tape deck with your digital audio workstation and benefit from the sonic bliss of tape, latency free in the digital realm. Enjoy the best features of tape (its sound) and the best features of computer recording (digital editing, precise punch-ins, non-linear approach, unlimited multiple takes) at the same time. You can even record to multiple tape decks and the DAW simultaneously without having to manual align tracks for synchronization. This video was created in a couple of hours at Little Red Wagon Studios by Brad McGowan and Ken Mahru to demonstrate the power of the system. Please try it out for yourself and give us some feedback. We hope to make a better video in the near feature with improved sound and camera work. This is the second of two videos.

Soviet reel-to-reel tape recorder “Jupiter-203-1 stereo”, made in 1988. 2 heads, 1 motor, 2 speeds (19.05 /9.53 sm/sec), 4 tracks, auto-stop system, luminescence record/playback level meter, internal power amplifier 2×6 W (max 2×15 W), amplifier mode. The songs are playing: Lisa G. – “Call My Name”, Patty Ryan – “Love Is The Name Of The Game”, Eruption – “One Way Ticket”, CCCatch – “Strangers By Night”.

This reel to reel tape recorder was used throughout the Mission Impossible TV series from 1966-73. All mission playing tape recorders used in the series were fitted with smoke tubes for the destruct scene.

Tape, Digitize, Align! TaDA: it’s analog magic for your DAW. This video shows how you can integrate your analog tape deck with your digital audio workstation and benefit from the sonic bliss of tape, latency free in the digital realm. Enjoy the best features of tape (its sound) and the best features of computer recording (digital editing, precise punch-ins, non-linear approach, unlimited multiple takes) at the same time. You can even record to multiple tape decks and the DAW simultaneously without having to manual align tracks for synchronization. This video was created in a couple of hours at Little Red Wagon Studios by Brad McGowan and Ken Mahru to demonstrate the power of the system. Please try it out for yourself and give us some feedback. We hope to make a better video in the near feature with improved sound and camera work.

philips 4307 reel to reel tape recorder

This is the great Studer A820 loaded with 1/4″ tape, 1/2″ conversion kit is visible in the box on the left part of the bridge. Audio your listening to is the actual recorder playback

A classic from the late 60s.

My Teac X3 4 track reel to reel deck playing an old recording (possibly 1950′s?) of Bill Haley’s 1955 hit ‘Razzle Dazzle’. It was recorded via sound card and then sync’d to the video. I would have used my monster deck (TASCAM 32-2) but it didn’t go down to 3 3/4 IPS and four track, I had recently finished servicing this deck and it is a great little machine with a great smooth sound and can go all the way up to 28KHz (+-3dB). As far as I can tell it was recorded using parallel tracks but there is no apparent stereo separation. Sorry about the low video quality but I did not have a HD camcorder to hand. I bought this tape in a job lot from eBay and I have never heard this recording of this song before, I think it might be quite rare and sounds as if it was recorded from the radio (it sounds like medium wave to me) and might be live. The rest of the tape contains mains hum and a low level recording of some old radio show. An interesting piece of history. No copyright infringement intended.