[sdiy] UK - B&Q Tape adapters

[Veronica Merryfield]

I would expect that the MP3 based 'record head' does not any bias either.
 
On 2012-03-29, at 1:20 PM, Tom Corbitt wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> --
>> /Ove
>> 
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