[peel] Tape 080 - The Tape Formerly Known As Unplayable

[Roger Carruthers]

Your Sherwood trumps my Tascam, Denon & Marantz then! (when I say Œmy¹, they
actually belong to work...)
No need to feel autoreverse shame; the Marantz turned out to have
autoreverse options, and seeing as there are a lot of tapes to be digitized,
and  the general quality of the tapes are not that brilliant, making
azimuth correction of limited use,  I may well end up using autoreverse
myself.
I tend to leave the tapes digitising whilst I¹m off doing other work, and as
they¹re all of varying length, you can¹t set a timer; using autoreverse will
greatly reduce the time I have to spend popping back to check the progress.
 Glad you got it sorted anyway ­ I tried so many times, I started to hear
the first three tracks, complete with ghastly speed fluctuations, in my
dreams ;-)
Cheers
Roger


On 24/09/2008 23:14, "rockerq@..." <rockerq@...> wrote:

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> OK today I tried to play this tape - I wound it back and forth end to end a
> few times first - and it played fine all the way through first time!
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> I guess it must have been loosened up by repeated windings, or maybe my
> cassette deck has a more powerful motor than most - its an autoreverse (Boo!
> Hiss! Azimuth Warning!) Sherwood twin deck from the early 90s - I bought it
> new when I couldn't find a replacement for my trusty old Sony Autoreverse twin
> deck - with 2 tapes you can set the timer and record 4 hours - essential kit
> for a gigging musician who may be away from home over 2 succesive Peel Show
> days! The Sherwood saw very little action as it was very shortly superceded by
> the wonders of the Sony consumer DAT machine - so I guess its motors have not
> had the chance to get worn out!
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> So if any of you rippers come across any more "difficult" tapes, it'll be
> worth trying them on a few machines, before going to the trouble of re-casing!
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> Cheers!
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> Rocker
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> PS SSheet updated again!
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