Re: [ARSCLIST] Re print-thru - tails out

[Goran Finnberg <mastering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Biel:

> If we used B-wind like the original AEG Magnetophons 
> and the Ampex 200, I suppose that print-thru on a 
> heads-out tape would be pre-echo.  Was this an 
> accident or were the Germans on to something?

To the end of magnetic tape use the German professional recording
studios used B-wind almost exclusively.

German radio was B-wind from start to end.

It makes for easier editing of tapes and to get the least pre-echo tapes
are stored heads out which is very handy for a broadcast organization
where the engineer needs to play several tapes and with B-wind there is
no need to rewind before playing.

  

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Goran Finnberg
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