Is US Recording Media doing OK?

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Hey folks, I haven't been here in a long time but I just noticed that US Recording Media is very low on their tape stock. Not only that, but I sent an email to their sales address and it bounced back immediately.

Has anyone heard any rumors of their demise, or could it be a momentary website glitch?

I'm concerned :(

J
 
Well I haven't heard anything but it seems that they are slowly getting smaller. Shipping for ANY item, I'm talking $3 NAB screw sets, was like $18 last time I checked!!! And like you said, their tape stock seems to be low or sold out, so I've been going thru Full Compass for tapes. They have this thing (at least with 1/2" reels) where 1 reel is $10 shipping, 2 is $5, & 3 is free. Plus they have a pretty wide variety of 1/4" reels.
 
thereelman77 said:
Well I haven't heard anything but it seems that they are slowly getting smaller. Shipping for ANY item, I'm talking $3 NAB screw sets, was like $18 last time I checked!!! And like you said, their tape stock seems to be low or sold out, so I've been going thru Full Compass for tapes. They have this thing (at least with 1/2" reels) where 1 reel is $10 shipping, 2 is $5, & 3 is free. Plus they have a pretty wide variety of 1/4" reels.
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You should have chosen Priority Mail then. US Recording also has free shipping for orders over $99.
 
US Recording is doing just fine! There was an "adjustment" on what was offered after the last round of price hikes from RMGI and ATR this summer. There was a lot of tape types that sat on the shelf and Pyral/RMGI is not making all the varieties of tape that were offered before when it was made in Holland and STILL have not made any SM911. US Recording has plenty of stock in anything except the SM911 because it was sold out in the USA and none was available in Europe.
 
No, not at all. Supposedly they'll be shipping it soon from France and hopefully in the next month or less it will again be available. All the SM911 sold recently was still the made-in Holland tape. There was something about the difficulty of making SM911 over SM900 that delayed this, and they consider SM900 their flagship tape to compete against the ATR Master Tape. But most of the tape sales were SM911 since most decks like Otari's and Tascams don't like running at a +9 operating level anyway like SM900 wants, and also people like the sound of SM911. I work at US Recording by the way and have a bit of insight on this. -Jeff
 
thanks, good to have you here in the forums, welcome. So you can keep us informed of these things and help on discussions. i was looking for 1" SM911, any insight on the recent price hikes ?
 
There should be SM911 in the country again any day from what we were told. This is the actual new French made stuff. The case price (4) is about $160 a roll now. -Jeff
 
FYI The 1/2" SM911 is a bit hard to come by right now (RMGI has none in the country as of today) but there's SM911 in all other formats as well as SM900 and SM468 as well as ATR Master Tape.
 
JeffAndersen said:
FYI The 1/2" SM911 is a bit hard to come by right now (RMGI has none in the country as of today) but there's SM911 in all other formats as well as SM900 and SM468 as well as ATR Master Tape.
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Can you please not spread pure high octane bullshit on the forums? I personally highly doubt you work for US Recording Media. I work in logistics for a very prominent music company that will not be named (you're probably violating company policy by discussing USRM on here FYI) and deal with international companies all day. I have a pretty good understanding of what causes something to be backordered, or out of stock. If I didn't, I'd probably be homeless. ;)

If you actually knew anything about tape you would know that there is 1/2" sm911 in the country right now, readily available, and new. Also, one of the reasons there wasn't sm911 at the end of last year was because universities buy it up for the following years classes. This was mentioned on the forum, and I confirmed this with a simple phone call that anyone could have made. I don't need an inside informant to find out free information.

And why would it matter if RMGI didn't have any tape in the country? All I care about is if the people who are selling it have it in their warehouses, which they do at the moment.

None of your information is factual. It's just tidbits of information you've picked up from looking at things on the internet. Which if you had looked hard enough at you would realize how stupid you sound.
 
Roozter said:
If you actually knew anything about tape you would know that there is 1/2" sm911 in the country right now, readily available, and new. Also, one of the reasons there wasn't sm911 at the end of last year was because universities buy it up for the following years classes. This was mentioned on the forum, and I confirmed this with a simple phone call that anyone could have made. I don't need an inside informant to find out free information.
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Before the flame war gets into full swing, I just wanna say: man, I wish MY school used tape! Nope, we're just Protools. You called RMGI directly? Did they give you any university names? Because maybe it's time to transfer...
 
Hammerstone said:
Before the flame war gets into full swing, I just wanna say: man, I wish MY school used tape! Nope, we're just Protools. You called RMGI directly? Did they give you any university names? Because maybe it's time to transfer...
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I did not call RMGI directly. I called a Full Compass rep who got in contact with RMGI. A tape shipment was delayed and I was not happy to say the least.

But if in fact you do want to contact RMGI here is their info:

RMGI North America
PO Box 340
New Buffalo, MI 49117

Phone: 269-469-2463 (USA, Canada, Mexico)

email: info@rmgi-usa.com
orders: orders@rmgi-usa.com
credit: rmgicredit@rmgi-usa.com

I would never use their order email fyi. That is most likely strictly for B2B sales.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that one school im sure buys up tape is Berklee. I believe (according to a percussionist friend of mine who attends) that they still start MP&E students on tape machines, then move them up to protools.
 
Roozter said:
I did not call RMGI directly. I called a Full Compass rep who got in contact with RMGI. A tape shipment was delayed and I was not happy to say the least.

But if in fact you do want to contact RMGI here is their info:

RMGI North America
PO Box 340
New Buffalo, MI 49117

Phone: 269-469-2463 (USA, Canada, Mexico)

email: info@rmgi-usa.com
orders: orders@rmgi-usa.com
credit: rmgicredit@rmgi-usa.com

I would never use their order email fyi. That is most likely strictly for B2B sales.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that one school im sure buys up tape is Berklee. I believe (according to a percussionist friend of mine who attends) that they still start MP&E students on tape machines, then move them up to protools.
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It's good to know that Berklee does, they're one of the most eminent music schools in the country. I should totally go to Boston for my grad studies... :D
 
I guess you know more about RMGI's stock situation than RMGI does! This is no bullshit. The fact is there was NO SM911 available from RMGI for some time in 1/2". The week of April 1-6 should show some relief but there's not a shipload coming in. You can verify any of this stuff by emailing RMGI or US Recording Media. In fact you can contact me directly at US Recording if you want to. I'll get the message (salesusr@usrecordingmedia.com).

At the moment RMGI is OUT of both SM911 and SM900 in 1/2" but like I said this should have some relief this week. Universities rarely purchase 1/2" tape compared to 1/4" tape, and they mostly buy 1/4" on 7" reels and there's plenty of that normally, but that inventory is normally OK because they made a LOT of it in Holland and moved it to France. US Recording is in contact with RMGI and sends in orders to RMGI almost daily and sells more tape than almost anyone else, so USR has a real good idea what's going on with the stock issue.

It matters plenty if RMGI doesn't have any inventory because that's where people buy the tape from that they stock? USR has gotten air shipments of tape from Holland but this has yet to occur with Pyral.
Tape retailers aren't stocking as much tape these days as they used to due to the exceedingly slim margins ans excessive cost. They rely a lot more on drop shipping than they ever did before and you should know this as a logistics expert. Why pay for shipping twice? (US Recording doesn't charge for shipping for orders over $99.00.) By the way the 1/2" SM911 is slit with a different slitting system than the other tape for some reason, and it wasn't too long ago that they finally nailed down the 911 formula in France, and the tape prior to that was all made in Holland and slit in France at the Pyral factory. These jumbos of tape were eventually all used up and thus the dry spell of newly slit SM911. This came right from RMGI itself so there's no reason to doubt it. :facepalm: Good grief!
 
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Call Don. He'll be happy to answer your questions if he has time or call Paske up.... he enjoys customer questions. I wouldn't use the orders@rmgi-use.com email, that won't get you anywhere.

Or you can ask US Recording.... we're here to help, not get into flame wars with people. We don't visit these forums very often due to time and also because there's so much mis-information floating about that we don't even want to get into it or know where to begin, but sometimes it's best to say *something.* Thanks -Jeff
 
A thee pack set of screws would ship for around $2.85. USR used to have UPS Ground as the default shipping method, but now it's a separate shipping method you have to select. -Jeff
 
fgonza2 said:
thanks, good to have you here in the forums, welcome. So you can keep us informed of these things and help on discussions. i was looking for 1" SM911, any insight on the recent price hikes ?
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SM911 is available now in 1".
 
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