Tape delays

[Doug Tymofichuk]

On Mon, 31 May 1999 18:34:51 -0700 (MST) reverend bluE 
<djblue at asu.edu> wrote:

> 
> on the subject of tape delays... (as the subject says..)
> 
> here is my idea... let me know what people think.
> 
> 1)  take a normal tape recorder
> 2)  use a pre-looped tape from an answering machine.

There are two problems with this. Most of these tapes have 
a metal strip attached to the tape to let the machine know 
when end of message is reached. This would have to be 
removed. And, as I have recently been made aware of, this 
short tape running for hours will wear out quite quickly 
and require frequent replacement.

> 3)  modify the tape recorder's erase head only.
>  3a)  modifications would include a knob that would control 
> the amount of erase, so that partial erase would cause 
> older sounds to decrease, while newer sounds are louder, or 
> you could turn the erase to '0' for an infinite 
> delay/loop...
> 
> well either way, I'm gonna try it and see what's up...
> 
> for the erase head, I'm assuming that you could simply vary 
> the voltage to it or would it require more than this?
> -b 

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Doug Tymofichuk
dougt at cancerboard.ab.ca