You've got to be kidding me...

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Beck said:
One thing I would seriously like to see... and I'm not kidding, is a tape smell plug-in.
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Or a clients sticky tape plug in, that bogs down the recording session while you clean the tape path (simulated) and try to play the tape again (simulated) to recover the work that was on the sticky tape, to the point where the tape falls apart completely (simulated), the tape machines motors burn out trying to move the sticky tape (simulated complete with smoke) and all the work is lost.

Cheers

Alan.

P.S I love where this thread is going.
 
witzendoz said:
Or a clients sticky tape plug in, that bogs down the recording session while you clean the tape path (simulated) and try to play the tape again (simulated) to recover the work that was on the sticky tape, to the point where the tape falls apart completely (simulated), the tape machines motors burn out trying to move the sticky tape (simulated complete with smoke) and all the work is lost.

Cheers

Alan.

P.S I love where this thread is going.
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Yeah, this is good stuff.

So, we could have the smell of smoke through digital emulation, and of course the next logical step would be a fire extinguisher plug-in... preferably a classic 1950's co2 fire extinguisher like Steve Mcqueen used in the Movie, The Blob (1958), for that classic sound of an old school fire extinguisher putting out a vintage tape deck motor fire.

If that's not Rock 'n Roll, well I don't know what is! :p :D

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Richard King said:
If anyone wants them I have a bunch of pops and clicks that I have removed from vinyl records recently. Of course, the older the record the more expensive, after all, their vintage pops and clicks. ;)
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Silly me, "they're". We can't have you people buying pops and clicks from an illiterate. ;)
 
Richard King said:
Silly me, "they're". We can't have you people buying pops and clicks from an illiterate. ;)
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Don't sweat it, Richard. As long and as much as I've been writing, their, they're and there can still mess me up. :o I know what I mean but I typo a lot.
 
Richard King said:
We can't have you people buying pops and clicks from an illiterate. ;)
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They do. :D
Hey, Richard, you did not say (I mean, type) something like: "The Portico 5042 incorporates an actual tape drive circuit"...
Tape Drive?
Tape Drive Circuit? Is it a circuit that drives the tape.??/ :confused: :eek:
Uh, more to that, it is an ACTUAL tape drive circuit. heh heh
Oh no, it's the circuit that "drives" a tiny "head". UUUUUUUUUUUh? - OK. So, then what is "tape drive" circuit in an actual tape recorder then? Or are we talking here about circuit known as record amplifier, which is, technically speaking, is nothing more than an amplifier loaded by record head's coil, and in general there's nothing too sexy nor anything special about it.
But, hey, , after all, it's just bunch of cool sounding words that are being dumped on the head of an unsophisticated "consumer", or is it not?
One thing for sure, though... those words are NOT typos. Those words were written by a person who either is ignorant (or say - technically illiterate) either is a deliberate lier, either and more likely - BOTH!
 
I didn't say that, er, type that, but that does have me wondering..... what kind of test tape does this device use for calibrating it?
 
Why, by using the internal test tape emulator option of course.... It's the button marked TTE....

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.............electrical shock simulator plugin for when you are frantically repairing the technical mishap created at random by the equipment failure generator plugin and forget to disconnect the virtual tape machine from the virtual mains power....
 
Richard King said:
...that does have me wondering........?
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Wondering is a good sign! :D
And one can have fun with wondering.
For example, one can go google dot com and execute a search for the exact phrase "tape drive circuit", regardlessly whether the wonderer does or doesn't know that technically speaking there's no such thing ;) , but hey - FUN is FUN!
Click here, shortcut provided :) : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22tape+drive+circuit%22&aq=f&oq=
Then after reading through "results" (there are not too many of them, btw ..heh heh), one can start REALLY wondering.
One thing will be clear: the "phrase" will not lead a wonderer to even a one single text-source that has anything to do with an actual analog tape recorder, instead the wonderer will land in the pile junk, known as "ProAudio World", the granpa of which Mr Rupert N. apparently is, or better say - happen to be by a proclamation of that very "ProAudio World's" stooges.

And, so, Richard, it only takes to be a "GranPa" of "Pro-Something", and then your phrase with wings "their vintage pops and clicks" will appear in various "well respected" pro-something publications. The fact that the phrase was a typo, an unawareness based technical nonsense or a deliberate camouflage/masquerade - it would not matter, it will never be challenged, nor questioned, with exception of maybe couple of wonderers somewhere in the void.

So, wonder, gentlemen, oh Please, wonder !!!! :)
 

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Beck said:
Don't sweat it, Richard. As long and as much as I've been writing, their, they're and there can still mess me up. :o I know what I mean but I typo a lot.
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Yea, but, who'd want to buy a bunch of pops and clicks from an illiterate. If I want to reach my quota this week I have to watch my typing skills. ;)
 
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