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Thank you Beck for the reply, likewise jpmorris—really appreciate the suggestions. Interesting to know that other brands of high speed 4-track recorder could do the job, I was always a bit worried that the speed of the machine might be exclusive to that model. Many thanks again, Cheers

Regular tapes seems to sound 'normal' at about 12 o'clock. The old tapes I'm trying to back up sound much slower than the slowest setting you can play back a regular tape with the varispeed. I'm getting more convinced that all my tapes were made on the high-speed 'H' version of the X-18. It...

Good point! On the 8 track versions, the Fostex X28 and X28H, the 'H' indeed stands for 'high speed' (so it says here) I've no way of knowing what I used 20-odd years ago, but I do remember it could play tapes at regular speed, which would imply it had a high speed/regular speed option...

Hello: Newbie Chang here, with a question that perplexes me deeply! In a nutshell: tapes made on a multitracker owned years ago play back slowly on newly-purchased same model multitracker... In the early 90s I taped a lot with a Fostex X18 (bought in Indonesia where I lived). Recently I...