{"id":1325,"date":"2023-12-13T20:02:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T20:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2023-12-15T23:17:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T23:17:13","slug":"tape-heaven-my-adventures-with-analogue-tape-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/2023\/12\/13\/tape-heaven-my-adventures-with-analogue-tape-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"TAPE HEAVEN: My adventures with analogue tape-recording"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I started recording to tape back in the early 1980s. In fact my friend Stephe still has an ancient reel to reel that when we tried to get working still had a recording of one of my songs on. From there I progressed to recording on an AKAI reel to reel which I inherited from my friend Pete Astor when he left it under the stairs at a house we both lived in round the corner from KONK studios Crouch End London.<\/p>\n

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From there I moved on to a borrowed then a broken fostex.<\/p>\n

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Then a minidisc recorder come the millenium. I been through three now all broke eventually. The Sony separate deck still going thankfully.<\/p>\n

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Since then I have recorded on to PC and mac direct but prefer analogue at first.<\/p>\n

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Then a friend in the USA sent me a professional TOA 8-track cassette recorder (a super fostex) and I used that quite a lot.<\/p>\n

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So the picture above top to bottom shows a new replacement AKAI reel to reel from mid 1980s (newer than model I broke from 70s) and reconditioned so works quite well although a bit noisy.<\/p>\n

The TOA deck.<\/p>\n

A recently acquired technics amp.<\/p>\n

A VHS digital sound in which records really well just sound.<\/p>\n

The original sony minidisc deck<\/p>\n

A technics dubbing cassette deck.<\/p>\n

TAPE HEAVEN<\/p>\n

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