OK deal on 1" reels:

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Great deal actually. I wouldn't get it for the tape (its oxide was made for slow speed logging of voice messages etc...) but rather for the reels themselves, which you can mount your own 1" pancakes. Those look like standard 3 screw reels? For $5 a piece, that's a steal but shipping will be a pain, will bloat the price, unless can be shipped in a greater number via media-mail? Great, well made storage boxes too.
 
I bought 1 from Junkbay a few months ago thinking I would swap tape but come to find out they're not 10 1/2" reels. But they will work I guess.
 
If I were to buy a few of these for just experimentation and demo purposes would there be any problems recording at 7.5 ips on a Tascam MSR 24? Being so cheap I could use some extra reels to play around with, but if they're just going to flat out not work I'd rather save the money.
 
If they aren't 10.5" they're probably 8" like videotape shorts. You would have to spool say, half the tape onto them and cut it rather than fitting the hub into it, but it should work and you'd have two 16 minute spools.

7.5 mode on the MSR-24 seems to have a lot more hiss to me, but I haven't really tried it in anger.
 
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Bguzaldo said:
If I were to buy a few of these for just experimentation and demo purposes would there be any problems recording at 7.5 ips on a Tascam MSR 24? Being so cheap I could use some extra reels to play around with, but if they're just going to flat out not work I'd rather save the money.
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It's voice logging tape meant for slow multitrack machines for call centers, I've personally never tried it for hifi, and don't know how it would actually sound at whatever speed. Also, I queried the seller abotu the size of teh reels, but never got a response back. The Quantegy site says they're 10.5"
 
Maybe I'll give it a try. I'm not expecting HiFi quality, just something to mess around with.
 
witzendoz said:
Even with the noise reduction on?
Alan.
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No, it wasn't a terribly fair test. I think I may actually have been playing back 15ips material at 7.5, so take it with a pinch of salt. And yes, for some reason the tapes which came with the machine were recorded with DBX off.
 
witzendoz said:
With the MSR series, I would not even think about turning the noise reduction off.
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Indeed. I only turned it off when I realised the tape hadn't been encoded. For all my recordings I've run it with DBX enabled, as I have on the TSR-8. (What annoys me most in the upgrade is that they reversed the position of the Locate and RTZ buttons...)
 
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