I Miss these days. Handling, mounting and threading tape was such and intimate feeling. Much more satisfaction than Point&Click Mousing. Loading and tracking on those things is what I miss most.
It is really great to meet people who are interested in vintage audio equipments and trying to recreate them with today's technology. Robert, I have been interested in audio cassettes and also reel to reel tapes since my chilhood. Apart from recording the legendary songs of the past to my cassettes and reels with tape decks, I am making collection of these items. I have been looking for internet for this Webcor cassette for years. So I would be grateful if you could sell me this Webcor cassette with original JCard or index card if possible.
Another great digital tape format was Tascam's DTRS which used Hi8 videotapes. Each machine was 8 tracks (DA38/DA88/DA98) and no sync track was required as it had it's own internal clock which was rock solid. You could chain up to 4 machines together for 32 tracks spread across 4 tapes and you could get 60-120 minutes of record time, which was brilliant for recording live concerts. Many mobile recorders used 3-4 DA88 machines chained together on a Tascam DM4800 with a split off the snakehead (many of them had 3 way splits - one for FOH, one for monitor world, one for "broadcast" and that would go into the inputs on the DM4800 and the three DA88s would be connected digitally via TDIF. It was only 16 bit/48k resolution but the converters on those old Tascams sound almost analog (Texas Instruments/Burr Brown). Also were a lot more reliable than ADATs.
Why do so many of these RU-vidrs NOT prepare what they are going to say! This guy is the poster child for After thoughts! Simply said would be the 3 mentioned formats are all 8mm!! The newer tape after 8mm was MINI DV!
Thanks for the video. I recall seeing this done decades ago and was intimidated. But you made it look straightforward and logical. Thank you for your explanation of the 8 mm video tapes and how to splice them. Much appreciated.
