Re: [ARSCLIST] Sound--real vs. recorded--was: discography of "direct-to-disk revival"?

[phillip holmes <insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm glad there's an expert here.  From the sounds of things, they either 
had lots of variation from one tape to another, OR the tapes didn't hold 
up well.
Phillip

Richard L. Hess wrote:
> At 11:14 PM 9/22/2006, phillip holmes wrote:
> > The Germans at AEG were recording in stereo to 30 IPS 2-track during 
> > the war.  After they figured out AC bias, they basically had stereo 
> > tape recording down.   The big limitation was paper based tape media.
>
> Which the Germans discarded in 1935.
>
> See...
> http://www.richardhess.com/tape/history/Engel_Hammar--Magnetic_Tape_History.pdf 
>
>
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