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Need help with an Ampex atr-700 tape machine

Submitted by anonymous on Sun, 08/14/2005 - 02:07

Hi all,

A friend of mine just acquired an Ampex atr-700 reel-to-reel tape machine. He got it from the company he works for while they were cleaning out some old gear. We wanted to try doing transfers of some digital material to tape to see how it sounded. The material in question is 24bit 48k two track material that I have on my audio computer.

Tape tp CD?

Submitted by anonymous on Tue, 07/12/2005 - 11:59

I have a Tascam tape foutrack and want to put some clips on the internet. I'm thinking the best way to do this is to burn my tape master to a CD, burn the CD to my hard drive and transfer the file from my hard drive to the hosting website.

Tape

Submitted by Michael Fossenkemper on Fri, 06/03/2005 - 20:47

i get a lot of inquiries on this subject. questions like "I would like a fatter tape sound. I would like to bounce my finished mixes to tape before mastering". While i'm a big fan of tape and the way it sounds, there is a point I feel that is missing. When i was a mixer mixing to tape, I used to spend hours compensating for what the tape did.

DAT tape question

Submitted by snyderman on Thu, 05/26/2005 - 16:15

A friend picked up a couple of DAT tapes for me but ended up buying different tapes than I was expecting. They bought VerbatI'm "Computer Grade Data Cartridges" I'm just wondering if there is a difference between these and the TDK or Sony audio DATS that I have used before. I'd rather not unwrap and try them if they won't work.

Thanks for any advice.
Derek