[sdiy] UK - B&Q Tape adapters

[Tom Corbitt]

He's talking about building an Echoplex. which would be cool indeed.

The problem is that you will also need to find an erase head to wipe
the tape loop before your write head. I also wouldn't count on the mp3
heads being able to read either. If you had a donor tape
recorder/player to give you a erase and read head (plus some of the
tape transport/movement elements, it could see that maybe having
multiple write heads writing signals back to the tape in variable
places might be quite interesting.

Making an Echo has always been one of my bucket list items, I probably
need to start soon since magnetic tape is becoming quite rare in my
part of the US these days.

Tom C.




On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Ove Ridé <nitro2k01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 March 2012 21:50, Mark Codling <mark.fireeye at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi.
>> Not sure if this of interest to anyone.
>> But B&Q in the UK (Bournemouth anyway) are selling those tape adapters .
>> (the ones you stick in your car cassette unit to plug your MP3 player in)
>> for £2 or 3 for £4.
>> OK so big deal.
>> But I was thinking.
>> Buy a few and rip apart one of the many old cassette decks I have rip out
>> the head from the tape adapters and build a cassette echo unit all the
>> outputs could be simply plugged into a mixer to start with build up a simple
>> mix unit and feed back into the record head .etc....probably do the whole
>> thing for £25..
>>
>> Got me excited anyway something to do bank holiday weekend.
>
> Not sure I see the point. There's no delay element. Unless I'm missing
> something crucial, it seems like this would be equivalent to simply
> plugging a send channel of the mixer right back to a mixing input. (Or
> other similar feedback loop.) You'd get an oscillation, but no real
> echo.
>
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> /Ove
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