Re: [ARSCLIST] 1/4" tape player

[Scott Phillips <scottp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That limits this some. So you turned the tape over to record the second
side, correct?

Were they momo or stereo? If they were mono, then it is likely you need
a machine with 1/4" 'half track' heads. If it was stereo, then it would
be 1/4" 'quarter track' heads....

Scott 

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On 24 dec 2007, at 22.09, Cary Ginell wrote:

Thanks all for the various replies that came over the holidays. I had
not thought to post a lot of information since it was probably
tangential to the list :)

The primary aim is to go through several hundred old tape reels
(including, I guess, many "home audio" recordings to save any
interesting fragments for the future. So the odd (what's the
translation) multi track format where you could double up the tape to
save tape (I remember doing that in the 70s anyway with the family set
we had at home whilst recording pop music).  Good output and
reliability. The reason for the trolley is that the studio is quite full
already and not a lot of space for a large bookshelf unit and the
trolley would be good to move out as required into store rather than me
doing even more back injuries and problems than before :)

Plus, since I am in Europe, I didn't feel it helpful asking for so
detailed information in case models were US only (110v) or people would
go to trouble of saying "try XYZ in Washington, DC" and the like as I am
sure the freight would be expensive !

But thanks for the good tips so far :) Cheers, Darren