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Vintage Tape (Audio), Cassette, Wire and Magnetic Disc Recorders and Players Open-reel tape recorders, cassette recorders, 8-track players etc. |
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13th Nov 2020, 4:34 pm | #1 | |
Hexode
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Playing and transferring 8 track tapes
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No doubt I was looking at the wrong section of the electronics, or some other "rookie" mistake. |
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Re: 8 Track players - worth owning?
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Entirely the opposite effect to half ( or slower speed ) mastering which places much lower demands on the equipment , |
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13th Nov 2020, 7:26 pm | #3 | |
Hexode
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13th Nov 2020, 7:48 pm | #4 |
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Re: 8 Track players - worth owning?
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Re: Playing and transferring 8 track tapes
Remember that the Tascam 38 is a half inch machine whereas 8 track cartridges use quarter inch tape.
One of the reasons that I asked Ted about changing the speed on the Fostex is that I have an E-8 here which is a larger and possibly slightly more sophisticated version of their smaller 8 tracks. I have often wondered about using it at 3.75ips as it appears to be possible to make it run at that speed just by changing a couple of jumpers on the capstan motor controller and setting a control line high or low (I can't remember which off the top of my head). The control line was used by the speed switch on the E-2/E-22 two track mastering machines which appear to be use an identical tape transport but with a more sophisticated audio section. I've had the E-8 running at 30ips, 15ips and 7.5ips by setting the jumpers on the capstan controller but not yet tried changing the control line. |