analog aaron
Swami King of Poppers
Hey Guys, Sorry I haven't been too active on here lately. I've been extremely busy converting my garage to a studio. We've taken most of the funds we've gotten from our 2 bands (a pretty good amount in all) and put all the money into the conversion. Since I'm the one (just about the only handy one anyways ) in the group(s) that's been working on it, it's taken me a while but I'm almost done and I'll post pics soon. Reel soon.
Anyways - WHAT'S YOUR TAKE ON THIS??? - one of my bandmates swears on his life that when rewinding a reel (and it's up to full speed) in order to stop the tape you need to press ffwd and then rewind and ffwd (back and forth) to "rock" the tape to a slow speed and then press stop. This can also apply to fast fowarding it. I've NEVER heard of this and in my opinion I would imagine this would be really bad for the reel motors and buttons. I would imagine the machine would go into "shock" from suddenly jamming the tape and reels into "the other" direction. Most R2R's slow the tape down anyways to a complete stop to avoid snapping the tape (like an immediate dead stop would do) I didn't bet him on this, but I really don't think he knows what he's talking about. Maybe he does (?), but I've never heard of this. What's your take on this?????
Anyways - WHAT'S YOUR TAKE ON THIS??? - one of my bandmates swears on his life that when rewinding a reel (and it's up to full speed) in order to stop the tape you need to press ffwd and then rewind and ffwd (back and forth) to "rock" the tape to a slow speed and then press stop. This can also apply to fast fowarding it. I've NEVER heard of this and in my opinion I would imagine this would be really bad for the reel motors and buttons. I would imagine the machine would go into "shock" from suddenly jamming the tape and reels into "the other" direction. Most R2R's slow the tape down anyways to a complete stop to avoid snapping the tape (like an immediate dead stop would do) I didn't bet him on this, but I really don't think he knows what he's talking about. Maybe he does (?), but I've never heard of this. What's your take on this?????