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Re: Tape Recording
2014/05/13 15:55:06
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Cool. I kinda wish I'd held onto all my old magazines. I tossed a huge stack of them a while back. Polyphony, early editions of Electronic Musician, Dr. Dobbs' Journal and Byte Magazine. I saved only a handful, including issues of Life and Newsweek magazines from the week JFK was murdered. They're probably worth upwards of two dollars on eBay now.
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batsbrew
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Re: Tape Recording
2014/05/13 16:44:56
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wow, some cool stuff buried in there..
fun sidetrack:
choose the year/month of your birthday, and check it out
/assuming it falls in there somewhere..
it's kinda like the dead sea scrolls....a lot of what was written in there, does not apply anymore
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wst3
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Re: Tape Recording
2014/05/13 18:50:14
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batsbrew
it's kinda like the dead sea scrolls....a lot of what was written in there, does not apply anymore I don't know - I can't imagine anything I remember from dB or R/E-P or Polyphony being any less applicable today. These were really great trade journals. And Bit - I've held onto my old Dr. Dobbs on the off chance I ever start serious coding again - I think I need to ditch them<G>.
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batsbrew
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Re: Tape Recording
2014/05/14 10:30:53
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i just meant in reference to the machines we have available today, vs then
people will always say they love tape..
until they forget about it.
this kinda keeps it alive,
even tho the best digital methods are already superior to tape by a long shot,
and on many levels.
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Rimshot
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Re: Tape Recording
2014/05/14 14:27:47
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Wow. I forgot all about demaging! I used to preform a demag on my 2, 4, and 16 track machines about once a week. That really brought back some memories!
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Re: Tape Recording
2014/05/14 14:42:20
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I still have my demagnetizer. However, the last practical use I had for it was making cool moire patterns on a TV, but even that doesn't work anymore since TVs went solid-state. Maybe I could sell it to somebody gullible, as a new-age headache/arthritis remedy.
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Re: Tape Recording
2014/05/14 15:37:00
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batsbreweven tho the best digital methods are already superior to tape by a long shot,
and on many levels. I don't know, if you read most of the comments it wasn't that people missed tape, but they missed many of the workflow "features" that it enforced. I know I am in that camp<G>!
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batsbrew
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Re: Tape Recording
2014/05/14 15:50:01
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i remember my reel to reel work flow....
spent 2 hours re-wrapping a reel after it jumped off the spindle and took off across the studio.
ah, the good ole days
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Rimshot
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Re: Tape Recording
2014/05/14 16:26:45
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How about a crumbling capstan rubber wheel? How about 2" tape master started to erode where the oxide would come off on the tape path?
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Re: Tape Recording
2014/05/14 23:16:16
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It's all digital baby, "it can all be emulated now..."
I mean if you're a car collector? Ok, own a model-T? For the nostalgia? And the value of having something you love/collect...
But That model-T? It's not going to stand against a big bore, V8, Bored and Stroked, Supercharged? Nitro breathing? 2000 horsepower "dragon..." You have to build the whole car around that power plant? The transmission? The differential? The tires, the aerodynamics? etc... You simply can't put them in the same camp? If you want nostalgia? Collect the classics. If you want horsepower? Build it... Using the most advanced technology.
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