Talk:Reel-to-reel audio tape recording

message: Q. What are "NAB adaptors"? Bastie 11:02, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Its an interesting contribution but original research If we could find a source and a more accurate figure than "I dunno, maybe...." We could include an explanation within the article. 94.0.215.193 (talk) 13:53, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: NAB

message: I thought these might be useful for the article, but it's getting a little image crowded. (One image now, but I'll upload a few more soon). --Gmaxwell 04:07, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New image(s) 

message: Should this page be renamed Reel-to-reel tape recording because there are other applications than audio?--Tugjob 18:54, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page title 

message: What about theses Swiss marvels of A77 and then B77?
Takima 00:32, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Studer/Revox 

message: Article on Wollensak needed. (Is that the right spelling?) Badagnani (talk) 21:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needed 

message: Two famous applications of reel-2-reel as an musical instrument can't be missing here:
1. In a wider meaning of the word instrument, the "Frippertronics" of Robert Fripp. He was using 2 (A77) R2R machines to create long tape loops and stack sounds. Pretty similar to modern digital looper pedals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSStufx6jYU&feature=related
2. The "Projectron" of Alan Parson. It was basicaly a standard 24-track tape recorder combined with a keyboard to unmute and mute its output tracks, resembling a sophisticated version of a mellotron/novatron. Sounds like choirs could be "sampled" in a very high quality and played in realtime, making the tape recorder a real musical instrument. Famous too, it can be heard on every Alan Parsons album of the late 70s/early 80s. 213.39.162.171 (talk) 23:51, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: As a musical instrument

message: For American History don't forget Brush Soundmirror, 1946 BK-401, recording medium is paper tape called Magnetic Ribbon.
http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/recording/begun6.html
http://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hersteller_detail.cfm?company_id=2092
Don't refer to http://www.useddlt.com/magnetbandtechn0.html it't not a neutral scientific source.
rroth, juli 31 2009 91.50.202.225 (talk) 09:54, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brush Soundmirror 

message: I was diverted here while searching tape-editing and this doesn't appear to have any appropriate info.
I was expecting something on splicing vs drop-editing but found nothing...and i would equally love to know if there were any other ways of editing tape. Also I'm not sure tape editing should re-direct here as tape editing can also be done with cassettes119.15.65.1 (talk) 04:02, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: A previous WP:RFD ended in a vote for retargeting Tape editing to this article. You can create a new Tape editing article yourself or request to have the redirect deleted or retargeted to another page. - Meewam (talk) 16:33, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tape Editing Re-direct 

message: Does the first line really need a citation?  It's pretty obvious that the reels aren't encased in a plastic housing.
108.94.104.67 (talk) 03:15, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Some Wikipedia editors really like to overdo it with citation tags. If a statement is blindingly obvious or there is no real reason to question it they still demand proof that someone (other than a Wikipedia editor) somewhere said it. Otherwise it can't be true ! 94.0.215.193 (talk) 14:52, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  First line's citation tag? 

message: This whole article only addresses (without saying so) reel to reel tapes recorded on 'capstan drive' machines - ie where the tape is pulled past the head by being pinched between a drive and a rubber idler wheel, thus giving a constant speed.
There is another (much cheaper) type of reel to reel tape recorder, the 'rim drive'. Here the tape is pulled past the head by powering the take up spool (by a drive bearing on its edge or rim). Because the diameter of the take-up increases as the tape is wound on to it, the tape speed past the head varies, getting continuously quicker.
Thus the two types of recorder produce mutually incompatible recordings on apparently the same tape. A capstan tape cannot be played at a constant speed on a rim drive machine and vice-versa.
I have for instance a 1963 'Star-lite' taking 3" diameter reels of 1/4" tape. The tape speed varies from 4.8 IPS at the beginning to 7.4 IPS at the end, giving a playing time of 4 minutes per track.
217.39.3.14 (talk) 22:57, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting stuff but would need citations to go into the article. Mind you the overwhelming majority of machines did use capstan drive (or some variation thereof) pretty much because anything else was pretty dreadful ! 94.0.215.193 (talk) 15:05, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Tape transport mechanics

message: A one suffered for a long time under soviet occupation: why do the reel lists not contain soviet tape recorders? These were the only instruments for recording, listening to and spreading of free world music.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.153.3.252 (talk) 20:57, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: List ? There's a whole article about it :-) 94.0.215.193 (talk) 14:48, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Magnitizdat

message: In 1939 one machine was found to make consistently better recordings that other ostensibly identical models, and when it was taken apart a minor flaw was noticed. This was introducing an AC signal to the tape, and this was quickly adapted to new models using a high-frequency AC bias This "accidental discovery" story has no citation and doesn't match accounts in "AC bias" article (dates also don't match) and doesn't explain how the machine generated an ultrasonic AC signal without the necessary circuitry. I'm tagging it as dubious until someone can come up with a citation (or more likely correction)  94.0.215.193 (talk) 15:09, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accidental discovery of AC bias -True ? 

message: The phrase "less complicated cassette tapes" is misleading. Yes, cassettes were less complicated to use, but that's only because they incorporated extremely complex internal mechanisms so users didn't have to bother with issues like lacing up the tape!Lee M (talk) 00:08, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small point 

message: In the External Links section, the link called:   
Website dedicated to the indexing of all known pre-recorded Reel to Reels during their last decade of production up to 1984 including scans of all items  
links to 
http://hoknescomics.com/reellast.htm
Which is a godaddy holding page for the website.
I'm not sure of the etiquette or procedure for deleting that info from the article  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.52.176.50 (talk) 14:36, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top link leads to a non-working page 

message: During a cursory search, I could not find any articles specifically mentioning the equalization standards used in reel-to-reel recording. In my opinion the NAB and CCIR/IEC standards are definitely worth mentioning in this article and perhaps even deserving of their own article. Gutten på Hemsen (talk) 16:10, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Equalization – NAB and CCIR/IEC