Has anyone ever designed a VHS multi track recorder? I know people talk about bouncing tracks to VHS or mixing down to VHS a lot here. But, VHS tape is so cheap these days, and it's 1/2 inch, so if it were possible to record on all of it, the sound should be decent with 8 tracks. Does anyone have any idea how fast an SP VHS tape runs at (in inches per second)?
Has anyone tried undertaking this before? I know it would take a radical head design or something, and maybe I'm being way too optimistic here but I feel like you could do a lot with such a format. There are only a few problems that I can forsee:
1- The tape can't be run fast enough (like a 'super' SP if the quality weren't good enough)
2- There might be problems with the cassette reels running it back and forth so much, it might not be as "accurrate" for making passes as reel to reel or a good cassette
3- Designing the heads
Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you,
-MD
Has anyone tried undertaking this before? I know it would take a radical head design or something, and maybe I'm being way too optimistic here but I feel like you could do a lot with such a format. There are only a few problems that I can forsee:
1- The tape can't be run fast enough (like a 'super' SP if the quality weren't good enough)
2- There might be problems with the cassette reels running it back and forth so much, it might not be as "accurrate" for making passes as reel to reel or a good cassette
3- Designing the heads
Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you,
-MD