Re: [ARSCLIST] 1/4" tape player

[Jeffrey Kane <jeffkane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's a half-track mono tape. Rather than two stereo tracks, it's one mono
track in each direction.

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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] 1/4" tape player

No, I'm not responsible for these tapes. I wish I had my "child hood"
tapes but I suspect they went somewhere when I was younger :(

I will also examine the option DL made in his subsequent mail.  I have
already a tape recorder (cannot remember the name at hand) and when
you play some of the tapes you can hear one track on the left channel
and on the right channel (as output to the mixer) it sounds like
something playing backwards. And that was a commercial tape !

Have a good weekend, thanks Darren
On 28 dec 2007, at 18.22, Scott Phillips wrote:

> 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