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Re: [ARSCLIST] Reel-to-reel preservation supplies?
Small reels will probably also require a few feet of leader at each end..consumer machines didn't have
the long distances between head and take-up hub and the recording often starts near the beginning of
the tape (or beyond it, if some of it has broken off over the years). I'm old enough to remember
recording on untensilized half-mil tape, but I'm still surprised when a reel of it turns up to be
transferred. That's fun stuff. I was also sent an extremely rare concert which had been copied onto a
half-mil 2400' reel of Realistic, but I suspect this was actually the super-duper thin stuff which in
longer lengths was the Triple Play or 3600' tape (on a 7-inch reel, mind you). That tape broke twice
while being threaded.
dl
Tom Fine wrote:
> Part of transferring a 5" or 3" reel at my studio is spooling it to a 7" large-hub reel in a new
> box. And I use my Technics deck to do the spooling because it's so gentle on the small reels.
>
> Unless you're playing back on a small-reel deck or something like a Technics, these small reels are
> usually not handled well. Last-generation decks from Studer, Ampex and Otari are different because
> they had much gentler transports than their forefathers.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lou Judson" <loujudson@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 12:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Reel-to-reel preservation supplies?
>
> Those NAB hubs are MUCH better on the tape too - the tiny hubs on 3"
> reels can pul hard and stretch the tape badly, with just a slip of your
> timing. The big hubs are the best for small bits of tape.
>
> <L>
>
> Lou Judson ? Intuitive Audio
> 415-883-2689
>
> On Sep 27, 2006, at 6:06 AM, Marlan Green wrote:
>
> > I recently ran across this product. I can't say what the plastic polymer is, but at least it
> > provides a uniform size reel for 3" and 5" reel tapes.
> >
> > http://www.usrecordingmedia.com/tmepllahub7r.html
> >
> > Marlan