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Re: [ARSCLIST] Can 78s sound better than LPs?
I worked in a major multiroom studio in the '80's. Cassette decks were a
real pain. I had speed test tapes that I had to use almost weekly on all
9 of them... Mostly Denon and / or Yamaha decks. Not that the decks were
bad... They were all calibrated very often, and used with tape types
they were aligned with. They made great tapes, for cassettes. It was
just the old speed = pitch issues, and artists were very sensitive to
that. More often than not, they would come in and say our decks were off
speed, only to have a test tape reveal (surprise, NOT) that it was THEIR
portable player that was way off.
All we could control was our decks.....
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In a message dated 8/25/2006 5:37:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mshoshani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Michael Shoshani
Chicago
Who inherently distrusts cassettes at all since working in a studio
with three different cassette decks, NONE of which ran at the exact
same speed as the other two...
Years ago, on a new cassette recorder, I recorded the time signals from
WWV (short wave). Since then I have used that cassette to test the
speed of other machines. If close, you hear beat frequencies. Usually,
however, they are WAY off!
Don Chichester