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Over the years competing manufacturers, mainly Tascam and Fostex, created a range of home or semi-professional multitrack open reel tape recorders. Subscribe to our Newsletter. By using this site, you agree to our use of cookies. Code by Port Forward. Hosted by Nimbus Hosting. Connect with Facebook. WHY does Fostex R8 sound better than digital? Onan 12th April Fostex E16 Rusty Install the app. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter turtle67 Start date Sep 21, When I don't have an E8 handy? I've been a long time silent member of this form and enjoyed learning a great deal about digital recording from these threads. EDU 7. Here is what I did to correct the problem. As you know, the tape cartridge is held in place in the player with a kind of a roller and spring arm mechanism.
I felt the problem was due to the cart not being held in place tight enough to cause good pinch roller to capstan contact. My conclusion as to what happens is the bearing of the pinch roller wears and the cart now has to set inside the player further to make good contact.
That works fine as long as the tension arm can compensate. This material can be cut with a scissors, so it is easy to work with. I cut a small piece, about a fourth inch square, and trimmed it to fit into one side of the V slot of the cartridge. The metal piece goes on the side where the tension arm roller presses up against. I applied super glue first on the V grove slot where the metal was placed. I applied pressure for a moment then trimmed the metal part with a small file from a hobby file set I bought from Radio Shack.
Small files are available from other sources to, but perhaps not as convenient to obtain as Radio Shack. I filed off the top of the aluminum near the side of the cart, so the roller of the tension arm would glide over and down easily. The extra tension created by the piece of metal shim worked perfectly. Proper foam should be and height is crucially important here! Now, assuming you are using backing material for the foam plus a slick material on the top for the tape backing to glide against, the toal should be 9 mm in height, so make sure that your backing material plus slick tape on top together add up to no more than 1 mm.
Also, the material of the foam is very important. While this may be due to improper pad material or improper pad height, in general, drag is usally more due to tension problems and should be checked out and ruled out before proceeding. Just a question of method. Once it has started to open, use a smaller flathead screwdriver to slide along the lightly molded seam of the rest of the cartridge body. Slow and gentle should have the tape open without any damage to the cartridge at all.
Eventually you will need to learn the safest and best way to open these puppies, especially since the high quality of the RCA tapes makes it well worth the effort and time to learn.
A lot of trackers are against treating 8-tracks as collectors items, like LPs and 45s. Bucks, Duane Thamm Jr. And a cast of dozens. The Official Price Guide series covers this area rather nicely and is readily available in most parts of the country. However, keep in mind that the prices listed are for mint or very good condition.
The main problem of breakage is the sensing foil, which serves double duty by holding the loop together at the splice.
Like any adhesive tape, it becomes not quite as adhesive as time wears on. This will reinforce the splice, making it the strongest section of the tape. Tapes jam because the carts, over time, are exposed to heat or are abused in other ways. The tape becomes packed and will no longer move smoothly. Also, the tape can stretch due to heat exposure, causing uneven portions of the tape loop. Tapes that have been sitting for a long time, especially in shrink wrap, can be worse than old, well used tapes because of the heat factor.
The players can also be the problem here; a player with dirty rollers or heads can cause excess drag on the tape, causing it to jam. Cleaning the player regularly with tape head cleaner will help. Rubber pinch roller breakdown. Petroleum by-product soup. Bad news for your player, so look out!
Check the pinch roller carefully before you stick a new tape in your player. Does everyone know what an 8-track pinch roller is? You can see it when you look in the top openings of a cartridge, sort of off to side. Actually, since pinch rollers come in such a variety of sizes, you can never have too many spares on hand.
An ounce of prevention and all that…. Guess what. I found an ideal substitute for the the gooey rubber washer. Your local hardware store may sell a power tool called an oscillating spindle sander. The sandpaper tubes fit over rubber hose-like tubes usually available in various diameters. You have to wrap about 2 to 3 layers evenly of masking tape strips around the plastic cart wheel to widen the diameter for better tape contact; and trim it accordingly.
Slip the rubber tube section over the plastic wheel and clean it off. Make sure the rubber tube is on the wheel evenly and not riding on the raised platic edges! It worked for the ones I just repaired! You can repair about 5 to 6 tapes with one rubber spindle. Good Luck! For three or four years a lot of good punk and alternative bands found their way onto our favorite format.
Quad reproduces spatial characteristics and effects unobtainable from two-channel playback. QUAD-8 tapes allocate tape tracks differently, combining tracks 1, 3, 5, and 7 to Program 1 and combining tracks 2, 4, 6, and 8 into Program 2. Part of this additional cost reflected the greater volume of tape jammed into a QUAD-8 cartridge, to offset playback time lost due to elimination of two programs. A few QUAD-8 releases were issued on two cartridges, or had some editing.
The resulting low-fi audio systems, with cheaper amplifiers, cut-rate tape transports, and mediocre speakers, turned off many prospective buyers from Quad sound.
Instead of four programs, there were only two programs. Maximum playing time was half that of Stereo In the United States and other industrial countries, consumers struggled to buy gasoline and other inflation-impacted necessities. They ignored costly frills such as Quad sound equipment.
QUAD-8 releases peaked out during , and sharply declined by Titles from EMI and Polygram labels i. More on quad: Quad 8-track was more successful at home than in the car.
Almost anyone who made home decks had a quad version. Quad 8 track and open-reel are the only true discrete 4-channel sources around…almost everything else is just matrixed into two channels. For vinyl, the CD-4 aka Quadradisc format had the rear channel information stored at high frequencies on the record, and required a special cartridge that worked up to 50, Hz in order to play the records back in quad. Discrete to me means four channel source — period.
CD4 was a two-channel source with the other two piggybacked on top — and by the way, never really worked well. Same goes for the right channel. Trouble was, the act of playing the record several times shaved off the already-fragile upper frequencies.
People talk about conspiracies and such, but one of the reasons quad failed first time around was not just the multitude of technologies — it was because a lot of them never worked properly. Boy, just imagine what a quad CD could have been like! Although extremely similar in appearance the only obvious difference between the two being a large hole in the top left underside of 4 tracks , the two formats were not at all compatible, having been developed and marketed by two different and competing factions.
The 4-track system was refined and marketed as a car accessory by Madman Earl Muntz, a west-coast used car dealer looking for something he could offer as an accessory to boost his used car sales. He acquired rights to the format and began marketing both hardware players and software prerecorded tapes , licensing music from major record labels. The development of the 8-track format took the basic 4-track technology and refined it, making changes designed to make the tape less likely to jam while playing, and to increase accessibility to individual selections on the tape.
In the 4-track format, the pinch roller the wheel that moves the tape along as it plays was housed in the player. In the 8-track system, the pinch roller was housed in the cartridge itself. The two programs of the 4-track format were like the two sides of an LP, each holding roughly half the total program material.
For the next few years, the two configurations contested for consumer allegiance. New titles continued to be released on both, and the two look-alike formats were often marketed side by side in retail outlets.
The physical similarity between 4- and 8-track cartridges permitted the development of converters that fit into the increasingly obsolete 4-track players and enabled them to play 8-tracks. Muntz M has a lot more going for it than great looks. And, maximum performance is guaranteed by the increased power of the new, twin solid-state amplifiers. You may reach it by pointing your web browser to:. This site is edited and maintained by Malcolm Riviera.
The site was originally created by Malcolm Riviera, Chip Rowe, and Abigail Lavine, but contributions from all net trackers are welcome. The four sections include pages on the following: 8-Track Mind magazine; downloadable 8-track icons for Windows and Wallpaper Windows ; articles on 8-track porn; history of the 8-track; how the 8-track works; this FAQ; stuff on 4-tracks and PlayTapes; an 8-track hall of fame; sound bites; how to repair tapes; reprints of articles about 8-track tapes; GIFs of cool 8-track covers; links to 8-track related sites; resources for buying 8-tracks and players; diagrams and photos of 8-track pioneers; and a classified ads section where you can buy, sell, and trade tapes.
Abbey is constantly adding new and cool stuff, and the page has one several net distinctions, including a reference from HotWired and a Cool Site of the Day.
Check it out today! During the mids, audio engineer Ray Dolby developed the Dolby Type-A noise-reduction system, which has been utilized extensively in professional recording studios ever since although for it is becoming superceded by the improved Dolby Type SR system and, sigh, various digital recording systems.
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