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Tape Project Machines. A forum for discussion of tape machines by The Tape Project. 766 Posts 144 Topics Last post by Daves Basement in Re: Tape path kits - end... on February 27, 2018, 12:41:46 PM Reel to Reel Tape Machines. A forum for discussion of classic reel to reel tape machines - Studer, Ampex, Otari, Technics, MCI, Teac, etc.
1. track: a single recorded length of information on a tape. It takes at least one of these for mono sound and it can cover the whole width of the tape or 1/2 the width or 1/4 the width. It takes 2 tracks to produce stereo (left and right) There are typically 2 or 4 tracks on a stereo tape.
A Tape Project album consists of two reels of tape, recorded at 15 IPS two track with the IEC1 EQ standard (formerly know as the CCIR EQ.) We don't encode the tapes with noise reduction such as Dolby or DBX. They are always recorded on new, unspliced tape. They are carefully made in our own facility.
2. Treat with Last tape treatment. 3. Store in a sealed bag with a few silica gel packs. You can forgo step one and dry the tape with the gel alone, but it takes a very long time (months) and each time you pull the tape out to check it , it's going to begin absorbing moisture.
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There is always much focus on the electronics of playback equipment (ie. tubes, solid state, capacitors, circuit topology...), but in the case of tape decks (and similarly turntables), a significant component of the sound quality is derived from the transport of the tape - not just wow-and-flutter, but scrape flutter, tension in the tape, and ...
But he notes that his method won't work for Agfa 468 tape (the predecessor of the RMGI 468 tape used by the Tape Project, and my own favourite type too) and has doubts whether it would work for more modern "high-energy" tapes than the ones he used "back in the day".
In the section related to tape tension, my Studer A807's manual states: "Insert a tape tension meter between the left reel and tape tension sensor. Press the key PLAY. By means of of the trimmer 'Play' adjust to 70p +/- 2p; the distance "X" should be in the range of 56 to 58mm."
After a long time on hold, I've finally finished my project to build a high quality solid state tape preamp. The basis of my design is a phono preamp kit sold by the well known designer Erno Borbely. www.borbelyaudio.com. I used his EB804/419 All JFET MC/MM phono preamp as my starting point. This is the simplest and least expensive of the RIAA ...
Re: Head Azimuth Alignment. « Reply #2 on: January 16, 2012, 01:17:43 PM ». Hi John, If the variations (what you're calling stability) seem to occur throughout the 10 or 15kHz tones, it could be more of a matter of perception (although all machine's performance degrades as you climb in frequency). Most of the time I use a software scope to do ...