<div>"Another format was a 8 track tape with cassette heads inside. Here, you<br>can fit all three heads (if you are careful) Speed control can be normal<br>spped... then pass a variable voltage to the fast forward motor windings
<br>for shorter delays." - Harry B.</div>
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<div>(see "do electros die slowly" post)</div>
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<div>I really like this idea. I have an old (of course) 8 track player. It's a seperate stereo component that does sound too good but the motors and mechanical parts seem fine. I have a box full of casette deck parts, too.
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<div>I've thought of cart machines like they used in radio stations. Probably very rugged (probably heavily used, too!).</div>
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<div>I've dreamed about a tape echo where the heads are arranged on a 1' X 3' table top. Maybe a dozen playback heads. Possibly multiple recording heads, too. You could move the heads anywhere around the table perimeter or group them together in a few small bunches. Maybe even play the tape by moving a head by hand. Might be tough to get good sound quality with a machine like that, but if you think of the input signal simply as a trigger to start chain reactions...then the tape delay becomes more of the instrument.
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<div>peng<br> </div>