Christmas has arrived early for me: A four track oscillator board from Germany, 10 new reels of Recording Masters SM911 from France, and a set of brand new 4-track heads from Romania. All the parts needed to carry out the 4-track conversion. That's me sorted for the Christmas holidays!
On the conversion I was wondering about setting the head alignment: I only have a 2-track calibration tape. I'm assuming, or hoping that (in theory) the 2-track tape would be ok to use to set up the 4-track heads? (at least to do the initial setting?) I've done the head azimuth adjustment on all the 2-track machines that I have many times before without problems.
Once the heads are in, I have a pile of 4-track tapes that I haven't heard for years to review. I will also need to re-calibrate and re-bias the other 2 A77s that I have to suit the new SM911 tape.
I've fitted amps to all my machines and I'm listening to extremely funky live James Brown, and live Fleetwood Mac with Bob Welch, from the 70s at the moment. Ideal source material for checking out the Revox. Happy days ahead
