A very generous friend lent me an amazing thing. It's a 1/4inch reel to reel stereo tape recorder. What fun! I've had a little time to mess around with it and here's what I've learned.
- The mic and line inputs work in the left channel, but not the right. (RCA and two 1/4 inch mono inputs)
- The machine will play audio from both channels from headphone and line outs. (RCA and one 1/4 inch stereo output)
- While I can monitor the inputs from the left channel --it doesn't seem to record. So far I've only managed to record silence over what's already on the tape. Hopefully this is a user error.
- Two tape speeds: 7.5ips and 3.75 ips.
- The reel to reel tapes sound fantastic to me. They sounds like, well... they sound like old tapes.
Right now my plan is to listen to a stack of reel to reel tapes that my friend "lent" me and then cut them up to make loops of various lengths. I've never done anything like this before so it will be an adventure. Whatever comes of it (song or sound collage) it'll be fun. I'll post sound files when I have some.
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