Re: [ARSCLIST] Thin tape decay

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The thought of using anything that thin fills me with great dread. But I used
C120s for years to aircheck my late night shows and play them back in the car
(!)..I used Scotch 120s and never had one pack up on me. Used them over and
over, too..about 10 airchecks was the limit before I began to hear dropouts and
since they were free, I just tossed 'em (except when I hit a show I wanted to
keep, which was usually when the tape was in its worst condition).

Triple-thin reel to reel tape? Oy. Was any of that ever manufactured with back
coating? I'm not aware of any.

dl

Lou Judson wrote:

> I used to use a umber of 180 cassettes to record 3 hour long radio
> programs - they always returned level at about -15 to -20 from normal
> record level - they just don't have enough particles to give full
> level. Unless you have used them and know from experience, the low
> level is not the recordist's fault, but the extra thin tape and
> coating...
>
> <L>
>
> Lou Judson ? Intuitive Audio
> 415-883-2689
>
> On Aug 2, 2006, at 7:52 AM, Robert Hodge wrote:
>
> > The audio levels on the 180's wasn't what I'd expected- low overall .
> > But that may have been attributable to the recordist or machine used.