Re: [ARSCLIST] Fw: [78-l] ^ Distortion on a cassette tape

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Parker Dinkins wrote:

> on 6/21/06 9:47 PM US/Central, steven c at stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >> Why should the material have become distorted?
> >>
> >> If the cells in the cassette recorder were losing voltage, that would
> >> account for it... but surely they'd never drive the motor for half an hour
> >> in that state?
>
> Might happen if one or more of the cells became exhausted before the others,
> as in the case where not all cells were replaced at one time.
>
> ---
> Parker Dinkins

I mentioned the other week, either on this list or 78-L, that I took my first
cassette recorder (which was a portable radio/cassette thing) to the Riverboat in
Toronto when David Amram was doing his "folkie" thing and recorded him, and then
found that the batteries had been low and my recording was literally "half speed
mastered". Not a question of misthreaded tape or schmutz caught on the
heads..just low batteries.

dl