[sdiy] OT Tape play heads

[Quincas Moreira]

I got a four track recorder for use with the magnetophone. My plan is to record the same signal on all 4 tracks

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> On Apr 30, 2018, at 3:07 PM, Ben Bradley <ben.pi.bradley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What is/was the tape recorded on? Full-track mono? 2-track stereo?
> 4-track stereo? If you use a mono head for playback, it will play back
> all the tracks as once (and in 4-track stereo, one pair of stereo
> tracks will be played back backwards while the other pair plays
> forward).
> 
> If you want just one thing on the tape, I suggest record it mono/full
> track, but then use one channel of a quarter track head (or even an
> old 8-track cartridge head) for playback. This will give more leeway
> on the azimuth angle to get full treble frequency response, so it
> doesn't have to be so critically close to 90 degrees.
> 
> The magnetophon demo is interesting, not just the actual product demo,
> but also he's wearing an "Atlanta Synth Meat" shirt! I was at the
> event last year. We have another even coming up in Atlanta in about a
> month. Details on "Atlanta Synth Club" on Facebook, or I can forward
> the awesome poster for the event.
> 
>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 11:20 PM, Quincas Moreira <quincas at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have this and am working on doing a cool demo video of it, so this
>> discussion interests me quite a bit. In fact these heads Thonk sells, and
>> even the preamp module, may be helpful to your end as well, check it out:
>> https://www.thonk.co.uk/shop/magnetophon/
>> 
>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 9:48 PM, Florian Anwander <fanwander at mnet-online.de>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Aren't the erase heads mono?
>>> 
>>> 
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