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What formulation are these tapes? 456 or 499 equivalents?

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check the specs. sorry I am a serial editor. someone should take that button away from me.
 
I hope it catches on for those that can afford it... that way I get the 456, 911, etc, for less. That's the good news for me anyway. ;)
 
Who is ATR catering to anyway? Is it just me or is their tape and price a bit "out-there"??:eek::confused::rolleyes:
 

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cjacek said:
Who is ATR catering to anyway? Is it just me or is their tape and price a bit "out-there"??:eek::confused::rolleyes:
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Pro studios, I think and no, it's not exactly a bargain, even for UK prices. In their defence, bear in mind that they are IIRC using a more streamlined production system for the tapes, and probably a lot smaller runs, rather than trying to recover the cost through mass-production savings.
 
jpmorris said:
Pro studios, I think and no, it's not exactly a bargain, even for UK prices. In their defence, bear in mind that they are IIRC using a more streamlined production system for the tapes, and probably a lot smaller runs, rather than trying to recover the cost through mass-production savings.
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I understand what you're saying but isn't RMGI doing the exact same thing, being more streamlined, that is, and their tapes are less expensive, despite their price hike. I sincerely hope ATR survives 'cause I see no one outside of the "PRO" circles, like you said, buying this tape and still, one has to wonder why would they if they have RMGI? Add to this the yet unproven ATR tape formulation and I'm starting to wonder what all the fuss is about and if anyone's gonna actually buy this rather needlessly over-spec'd, expensive tape. (Just thinking out-loud, so bear with me ;) ).
 
cjacek said:
I understand what you're saying but isn't RMGI doing the exact same thing, being more streamlined, that is, and their tapes are less expensive, despite their price hike.
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I don't think so. I don't know what RMGI are doing but I'd be surprised if they don't use a traditional large coating plant - probably one of their cassette plants retooled - whereas ATR invested in some weird new machinery to allow them to make fairly small runs of tape in a factory unit with a relatively low amount of staff.

I could be way off-base, but that would be my guess.
 
I'm out of ATR's spectrum since there isn't 1/4". Maybe later on if their prices drop and I get my hands on an Otari.;)
 
cjacek said:
Add to this the yet unproven ATR tape formulation and I'm starting to wonder what all the fuss is about and if anyone's gonna actually buy this rather needlessly over-spec'd, expensive tape. (Just thinking out-loud, so bear with me ;) ).
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Not that I'm planning to buy any of their tape right away, but do remember who we're talking about here. This is ATR Services, a niche company focused on hot-rodding what was arguably already the highest functioning analog tape recorder, the Ampex ATR machine. They cater, for example, to folks for whom two tracks on 1/2" tape isn't good enough and insist on installing custom 1" 2-track headstacks on their ATR machines. I would have been surprised if they did anything other than seek to offer a new tape formulation designed to show off the best of what the ATR machines can do. Now whether that's relevant to more than a handful of users is another matter, entirely.

Cheers,

Otto
 
ofajen said:
Not that I'm planning to buy any of their tape right away, but do remember who we're talking about here. This is ATR Services, a niche company focused on hot-rodding what was arguably already the highest functioning analog tape recorder, the Ampex ATR machine. They cater, for example, to folks for whom two tracks on 1/2" tape isn't good enough and insist on installing custom 1" 2-track headstacks on their ATR machines. I would have been surprised if they did anything other than seek to offer a new tape formulation designed to show off the best of what the ATR machines can do. Now whether that's relevant to more than a handful of users is another matter, entirely.

Cheers,

Otto
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Good points, Otto.
 
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