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Some time ago I bought a large number of reels from a former employee who worked at a french radio. There is a number of 10.5" Scotch reels in white boxes (black Scotch labels). All appear to date circa 1975-1977. Neither the tape nor their boxes mention any tape type or thickness. The back of...

Hi, I emptied the attic of a deceased sound engineer. There was a number of nice things (NOS & used PER-528 pancakes, Perfectone EP6A with extras, Nagra IV accessories, etc.) and I took two 1/2" Ampex 456 tapes. One appears NOS, the other may have been used, but only little. Are those tapes...

I'm currently using an old Sennheiser MD21 with my Nagra III to record as best as I can. That's until I can afford a Nagra IV-S with good microphones if they are affordable. Last week I picked 5 small LEM type D035 and D042 and one Beyer M110. I have no information on those and don't know how...

Hi, A friend of mine and myself are willing to make high quality transfers of 78 records and magnetic tapes (mono and stereo in 2/4 tracks). We may also transfer vinyl records of classical music but right now the priority is on 78s and tapes. We heard of this Tascam AD converter and we...

Hi, I would like to find a good and not-so-expensive tool to erase used tapes still in excellent condition. I don't need a big machine, only something working well to erase one or a few tapes as far as I need to record them. Reel size is up to 10.5 inches. My other concern is that I'm in...

So far I visited a guy who put a small advert on a website to sell his stuff. He had over 200 tapes, with about 50%-60% Ampex 456 and 407 which I all trashed because they deposited so much and also generated some hiss on the rollers of my Nagra. They didn't stick, but were close to in my...

Thanks for your reply. My Revox is a 2-track stereo model, like the Nagra IV-S. I have no idea whether my Revox is set for NAB or CCIR or IEC1. I guess NAB ? It was used at a radio station in Paris. The PER525 are the predecessor of the 528. From what I've been told, the first two digits...

If it was the first recording of a concert, it wasn't the first recording of classical music. The first experimental recording of classical music was made in 1935. It was transferred many years ago and sounds quite well. The tape now became very brittle and couldn't be played anymore. You can...

Hi there, I just got a nice number of tapes from a former radio engineer. Most are AGFA type PER525 and some are PER528. I also found a few PER428 and there are also some black tapes of unknown brand (probably Scotch as I have several scotch boxes as well). Since most of the tapes are PER...

You forget that a wire loop on your real can easily drop down over another loop and cause the wire to block or even break. One way to avoid that (in part) is to put the recorder vertically (or almost) so that gravity has almnost no effect on the upper loops, which won't fall down. My oldest...

I had that problem with different machines and I always found that it was due to friction problems. Sometimes some parts making friction were dirty or accumulated a thin layer of rubber or got polished by natural wear. In these cases I cleaned the affected pieces, and this considerably increased...

Hi there, I have one 1-inch and one half-inch VTR which I like and know that I will never have a 2-inch VTR. Just too big unless I find one of these rare 1960s units which aren't as big as an Ampex (except the portable, record-only model). I'd like to find an old (well, oldest possible) 2-inch...

Hi there, Some time ago I bought a lot of around 200 7 inch reels recorded by a professional studio in 1987 and 1988. I can't remember the exact count but I think at least 33% are Ampex 456, there's a small number of Ampex 405 or 407 and the rest is all Maxell UD and XL1. I have been told that...

Sure enough I did not verify this and I found that indeed some of the tapes were rewound upside down. Amazingly the earlier XL1 tapes (High Output) were correctly rewound whereas for some reasons the later ones (High Output Extended Range) were all upside down. All were originally recorded on a...

Hi there, I've been doing an interview using my Nagra III recorder. I first used a Maxell UD 35-90 tape and everything went fine. For the second part I used a Maxell XL1 35-90B. This very tape would not record. The erasing head almost erased it with some minor residue of the previous recording...