Recent content by tanoka

Despite his 'battle' online demeanor, some of his questions did make me think more about the issues.

Tim, A huge portion of shellac's magic is the direct to disc process. It provides immediacy not available with tape mastering. The early days where singers stood close to the mic was primarily acoustic period. Most my collection's electric late 20's, 30's, early 40's. In post war period with...

Tim, Music reproduction's not about frequency range for me but frequency quality. Almost all my 78s are a capella with only a few having one instrument accompaniment. People's singing voices, including the extremes of basso and soprano, don't need 20hz-20Khz. In fact I find almost every...

I have extensive roll-off options on all my pre-amps for pre-RIAA compensation, but I see there's no getting around a second EQ process to IEC for tape. Lotta signal processing going on but I'm sure it'll sound wonderful. I guess my next step is to find the best Ampex servicer in the states?

Tis the internet. I'm just happy people are willing to share their knowledge here. I do the same with music , which is one of my expertise, for others but I know little how electronics work. I do know how they sound of course. Leading to my next question, I notice the Ampex 351's pre-amp is a...

I was reading about these last night. Their tape transports are identical but their electronics are unique. 350 has outdated metal tube casings and point to point wiring while 351 has regular tubes and a printed circuit board. The 351 sounds like a good option for me although I did read an...

Hi Bob, Thanks clarifying for me, perhaps Tim simply misread before morning coffee or such. The time I spent here before I do remember the "Analog Only" forum isn't immune to a little digital insecurity. I do sympathize though because besides a few things like tonearms, cartridges, and amps...

Thanks for listing those. I think I remember seeing a Studer C37 in NYPL's 3rd floor basement archive at Lincoln Center. I would love to have a mono full track version if I could find one listed for half of what's on eBay currently. The Revox G36 is obviously much more reasonable but they're all...

R2Rs don't amplify the input signal being recorded to tape correct? They only house amplifiers during playback? I don't want any transistors processing the signal for either. Do very few R2Rs have tubes though? Please excuse my simple questions, internet search nor wikipedia aren't really...

Tim, I'm a 'private archivist' and my primary concern is being able to present music all analog. Obviously digital files are necessary to share with the whole world, for the few people who would even care, but eventually I'll have some sort of local installation where people can hear the source...

Is this the one you have? Is the B/A switch to select between inputs?

Hi all, Many years since I posted here. I'm building a hi-fi archival system for pre-war disc recordings, a good number that have never been re-issued in any format, surprising how 90 year old discs can be neglected so long! It's a bit of a daunting task but I'm getting very close to completing...

Hi, I record vinyl onto soundforge 7.0 Some reason it is now recording only one channel onto both. I switched the left and right channel outs on my tape deck which is where the signal is coming from and then it would just switch to the other and record it onto both. This happened to me over...

Hi everyone, Got my first release in today. Small workout carrying 23 record boxes up a flight of stairs. One of the best soul albums ever recorded in New Orleans in my humble yet informed opinion. Can listen and purchase this completely analogue recording here...

Would it not be considered normal to demag the tape heads/path immediately before playback to cut a lacquer master for vinyl pressing? I just got my test pressings today from the pressing plant and there's faint crackle present in random parts of the album. Is it possible static accumulated...