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Originally Posted by Gulliver
I love how it sounds so eerie....despite being recordings of actual instruments and voices it sounds unreal - and I mean that as a compliment. It has character of it's own also imbued by the 7 second tape length and rewind time....no note can last longer than 7 seconds and generally cannot be repeated rapidly. It leads to interesting chord structures (see Watcher) and playing techniques. And sounds glorious in it's own way.
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I think that the unique sound is due in part to the mechanism introducing its own speed variations in the reproduced sound i.e. wow and flutter becoming slow and fast vibrato. Also, I believe that all of the playback heads are in series with the output of this chain being fed to a single amplifier. All of those series tape heads would form their own complex combinations of LC filters, the relative phase of notes played together would be unknown and there would be no resemblance of a match to any known tape playback EQ curve.
John