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a (last ditch?) effort to resuscitate the patient -- I mean, forum

Posted by mhardy6647 (A) on December 11, 2017 at 14:40:56

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: 12/11/17

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