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    Ferrograph 631

    Guy in Hattiesburg Missisippi does the same thing. Should be around the Web somewhere.
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    Wollensak T1515

    oh my GOD we had those in HIGH SCHOOL by the dozen as well as the mono and 2 track versions. Yes, built like a tank and with new tubes (just remember like with any vintage tube gear you have to go in and tweak the bias once you put in new tubes or else it'll fry later) and sounds FABULOUS. We...
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    1950s Columbia & HMV pre-recorded tapes

    All kinds of ``tapeographies'' abound, mostly housed within the university and/or Government archives designed to preserve and/or restore them. Other than that, Reel-Lady and her sister O-Jayne on eBay are both 2-track nuts, both mono as well as stereo. They girls inherited the passion from...
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    Storing and Labeling Master Tapes

    Half-inch, one-inch and two-inch boxes as well as the later polyvinyl storage cases that came out are All Over L.A. New York and Nashville. Any good recording reseller should have them by the thousands sitting in their storage lockers. Then just use normal Dennison labels.
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    1/2" Aluminum Splicing Block?

    No need to tolerate the plastic blocks. Los Angeles is FULL of half inch, one inch, two inch, and even THREE INCH genuine Xedit/EdiTall aluminum splicing blocks for the MCI 32 track. Call Jerry Cubbage up at Coast Recording Supply, formerly of Santa Monica and Vine, now moved to the Valley. Or...
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    Akai MK20J tapes for MG1212 12 track

    Shells/cartridges, no, those you have to rescue from wherever you can. Unless you want to pay to have the transport reworked so it will use normal ordinary Betacam (not Betamax) cartridges for which it was originally designed. There's a handful of guys that do that, mostly back East. It's not...
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    Anyone looking for Akai MG614?got 2

    Since I too rarely rarely monitor this or any other board, being too busy with restoring and transferring everybody's orphan format tapes and discs, what I can tell you is what we do here for any kind of enclosed tape format is to unwind them onto large-(NAB)-hub reels (yes, they do come in...
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    MCI's 3 inch 32 track machine...

    The 80 IPS pop song decks with six mins a reel - anybody know a model number? The 80 IPS pop song decks with six mins a reel - anybody know a model number? We have some tape here trying to remaster playing it on a 827 at 30 IPS and it sounds like a 78 played at 16. If we record into the...
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    Analog media preservation, transfer and restoration.

    New here to this forum, but not surprised it exists. I'm a crossthread-head from Both Sides Now vintage stereo chat board,, the Lathe Trollers forums, the QuadraphonicQuad forums, the vintage dead audio formats forums ad infinitum. So, generally, for whoever wants to know, I've been in the...
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    Tape editing. What a pita!

    So I see I'm not the only crossthread-head here. QuadraphonicQuad forums, Lathe Troller forums, Reel to reel forums, LP forums, ad infinitum.
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    Restoring Vintage Analog Media (disc/tape)

    I wrote a dissertation for other budding disc and tape restorationists here: http://bsnpubs.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3024365&highlight=adobe+tutorial which may be of some use to the members here. In addition http://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/ has a lot of useable information as well, in...
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