[Dixielandjazz] Recording the music

[Harry Callaghan]

Andy:

No, not more than I wanted to know.  It is very refreshing when every once
in awhile someone asks an intelligent question and gets an intelligent
answer.

I've come to the conclusion, based upon the consensus of opinion of others
besides yourself who have contributed to this discussion, that
the answer is basically improved techniology that allows the cassettes
to be recorded at 1 7/8 ips versus the formerly superior 7 1/2 ips that
was recommended for reel-to-reel tapes

Of course, as I mentioned a little earlier, had they attempted to record
cassettes at 7 1/2 ips, you'd be lucky if you could get more than 10 minutes
of music on each side so it would have been highly impractical
to have done so.

Thanx
Harry


On 6/22/10, andy.ling at quantel.com <andy.ling at quantel.com> wrote:
>
> Harry asked about different tape speeds.
>
> The short answer is that the faster the tape goes the better the high
> frequency recording is.
>
> Here is a very crude description of what happens. As the tape goes past
> the head, it records
> vertical stripes of magnetism on the tape. The faster the tape moves, the
> more room
> there is to fit these stripes in. The more stripes you can get in, the
> higher the frequency of
> sound you can record.
>
> When cassette tapes came out, the technology had improved such that the
> gap in the
> tape head could be made a lot smaller. This meant the stripes could be
> made smaller
> so you could get passable quality at slower tape speeds.
>
> Also the quality of the tape got a lot better. So distortion from errors
> in the tape
> were a lot less. And then things like Dolby noise reduction helped.
>
> All these improvements helped reel-to-reel too. So the higher speed tape
> recorders got even better.
>
> And just like mp3 today, people were prepared to accept lower quality for
> the convenience.
>
> More than you probably wanted to know......
>
> Andy Ling
>
>
>
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