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Tape is on its Way!

ATR Magnetics, our sister company dedicated to the continued production of high quality analog recording tape, is currently in the final rounds of in-house beta testing before product release!
The ATR Magnetics staff has worked tirelessly from the start with one goal in mind: produce the highest quality professional audio tape made to date, make it consistently, and formulate it to last. This was no easy task, but we are pleased to say that our goals have been met.
Our first formulation of ATR Master Tape is a very high output 1.5 mil tape with operating levels up to +10 dB over 185 nWb/m, which will be supplied in 2", 1", 1/2" and 1/4" widths on 10.5" reels.





....+10?
 
woah, I've only heard of +9.....How much is this stuff going to cost?
 
Yeah, and maybe the price of oil will come down with it! :mad:

If the price of tape comes down, then tape decks will become more desirable leading to more tape being sold, leading to more tape decks, etc... :)
 
+10! Do any of you know if the Revox (i.e. made by Studer), built-like-tanks, home machines are capable of being pushed to anywhere near this recording level without distorting? Can they make +6 dB or +9 dB? They are overbuilt to the hilt, even the all discrete components on their circuit boards. And their boards all plug in to a back plane, just like a big studio Studer. Am thinking that if any home machine should be able to be pushed that hard, it would be a Revox.
 
N7SC said:
+10! Do any of you know if the Revox (i.e. made by Studer), built-like-tanks, home machines are capable of being pushed to anywhere near this recording level without distorting? Can they make +6 dB or +9 dB? They are overbuilt to the hilt, even the all discrete components on their circuit boards. And their boards all plug in to a back plane, just like a big studio Studer. Am thinking that if any home machine should be able to be pushed that hard, it would be a Revox.
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Not likely on the Revox. The electronics would distort waaay before tape saturation. But really there's no reason to buy a +10db tape just to push it that hard.
 
If you repeatedly hit +10, I can only imagine what kind of print-through that would make.

I don't care how good quality the backing may be, a magnet is a magnet. If you stick two magnets on top of one another, they WILL affect each other. If one of those magnets has a magnetic strength of +10 (whatever nWb/m level that is.....) It's gonna print through. Period.

-callie-
 
callie are you a real live chick who likes recording, and better yet ANALOG recording, and you live in my state???? this might be too good to be true
 
Bigsnake00 said:
callie are you a real live chick who likes recording, and better yet ANALOG recording, and you live in my state???? this might be too good to be true
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Settle down now.. :D :p ;)
 
gender = male.

Yes, my parents chose to bridge the gender gap in names. I'm not complaining.
 
it's a step in the right direction...

when these companies get the hint that some of us know people who hoard old stock tape in climate controlled bunkers, do you think they will get a high quality, consistent and warm +6 tapes back on the market to compete with each other and the misers? that is the real question... it seems rather nifty to have +10 (or +11 for the next spinal tap record), but the vast majority of us would love to have something we can actually use without bias issues in classic machines... through the drought, the old set knew -- and the younger analog troopers that i know have found -- that most things just sound better with what they were built to spin... kerosene can fuel a supersonic jet, but for our purposes, we really only need it for the steady glow of a lantern...
 
I'm guessing that they want to also appeal to a new market, and that they want to treat the only real issue with digital, which is SNR, so they want HOT printing levels.

I would consider biasing my deck for this tape to see how it works out.
 
Just found this thread....

started exactly one year ago today!
 
You Bastard...
Here Im reading thinking...cool...Buy NooooooOOOOOO!!!! :)
 
did you really want +10 tape anyway?? I am perfectly happy with +6 for RnR.
 
Heh, I'm not impressed, 'cause I'm holding out for +11. :D
 

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Whos that +10 tape for anyway?? :confused: I can now see it, all the TEAC and TASCAM recorders grinding to a halt trying to pull the damn thing! :eek:
 
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