[Dixielandjazz] Recording the music

[Allan Brown]

Did anyone ever own one of those old TASCAM 4-Track machines? You could use a normal blank cassette (perhaps they had to be a specific type, chrome or something) but it only used one side and recorded onto them at a much faster speed. So a 60 min cassette gave you 15 minutes worth of recording.

All the best,

Allan

On 22 Jun 2010, at 14:42, Harry Callaghan wrote:

> 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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