Press Play > Dedicated to All Things Reel-to-Reel

This is an audio version of a presentation I deliver at Hi-Fi shows and to interest groups. 

It covers:
Application
Reels sizes
Track layout
Tape speeds
Reversable machines 
Eq
New or used machines

A transcription can be found as a blog on the Reel Resilience website.
https://www.reelresilience.co.uk/post/press-play-episode-28-buying-a-reel-to-reel
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Reece Beard is a final-year student at Salford University in the UK.  I thought he would make a great interview as to why GenX, Millenials and Gen Zeds are going back to the analogue tape format.

You can also hear why it's good that a machine doesn't record sometimes and how I trashed an MRL alignment tape. 

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In part 2 of this two-part podcast (see Ep 24 for Part 1)  we continue our talk with Dan Labrie owner of  Myriad Magnetic.
Dan has been involved in professional analogue recording technology since 2010. He began his career replacing switches and capacitors on an Amek console at a recording studio in Detroit. As a result of  working for analogue tape pioneer Mike Spitz, who owned ATR Services and the tape manufacturer ATR Magnetics, he has gained valuable experience in, not just the machines, but also  in the tape they record and play.
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I have been meaning to do  this for a long time, a bit more about me and my experience, so you get an idea of the person behind all of this. I did an outline of my background in Episode 1 but there is nothing like being interviewed and answering those, sometimes tricky questions, that get you searching the depths of your memory to answer them.

I was asked to appear on Darren Harte’s radio show on Harborough FM, to talk about the resurgence of tape. Darren is a client of Reel Resilience , I have serviced his cassette deck and reel to reel machine in the past. In the interview Darren also mentions the audio archive at the University if Leicester who are also one of my clients.
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In part 1 of this two-part podcast we talk to Dan Labrie owner of  Myriad Magnetic.
Dan has been involved in professional analogue recording technology since 2010. He began his career replacing switches and capacitors on an Amek console at a recording studio in Detroit. As a result of  working for analogue tape pioneer Mike Spitz, who owned ATR Services and the tape manufacturer ATR Magnetics, he has gained valuable experience in, not just the machines, but also  in the tape they record and play.
Support the show