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Location: south east Michigan | I have found an old reel to reel tape (about 5" dia) of my old band, Captain YoYo and the Seadogs, playing at the Roseville Masonic Temple. Does anyone out there have the equipment to convert this to a usable, modern format???
This tape has to date back to 1971. |
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Location: closely held secret | I've worn out 4 RTR's. Don't have one at the moment.
Captain YoYo and the Seadogs, playing at the Roseville Masonic Temple? Are you sure you want to hear that? |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | This site says they'll do it for you for $20.
http://www.sextonproducts.com/reel.html |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Brad, I can do it. I've got 2 reel to reels. What speed were they recorded at? Email me privately. Dave |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I thought this was a fly fishing thread. |
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Location: Midland, MI | I thought it was Cajun cooking. You know, creole. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Brad, I can be Dave's backup if his system won't work (but I see no reason that it wouldn't). |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Don't have a reel 2 reel, but I've got some noise reduction software if it needs some work after it's converted. |
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Location: Evansville,IN | I haven't seen a reel to reel in years. Back in the day it was the "thing" to have. You could get at least 4 hours of music on a 10" reel. I loved my Pioneer 1010, wish I still had it. :( |
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Location: south east Michigan | Captain YoYo and the Seadogs, playing at the Roseville Masonic Temple? Are you sure you want to hear that?
Geez...maybe not. I think I was only 16 and Captain YoYo and the rest of Seadogs were younger than that. I'm sure that toward the end of the tape I will be doing more yelling than singing. But it's kinda like finding lost Beatle tapes collecting dust in a closet. Well...maybe not really quite like that.
On top of that I have some 35mm slides from the event. The new Star Trek type scanner I have will allow me to convert them to digital. Be afraid....be very afraid. I'm talking fringed leather vests here.
I just remembered the name of the guy running the Sony reel to reel...Don Whaumbat.
Thanks Dave...I'll be in touch.
And thanks Stephen...I'll keep that in mind.
Thanks for the link Mitch..you have mail.
And BruDev..."might require some noise reduction"...never has there been a more accurate suggestion made!!! Put that tape through noise reduction software and there might not be anything left!!!! |
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Location: NJ | ". . Turn it off . .
. . . Turn It Off . . .
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. . . Turn It OFF!! . . .
. . . TURN IT OFFFFFF!!!! . . ."
- George C. Scott
"Hardcore" (1979) |
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Location: closely held secret | Ah, go ahead and do it, Brad. A year ago I tossed out about 50 r2r tapes from the 70's and 80's. Just didn't have the motivation to try to find a working recorder. I knew there was a lot of stuff I had recorded over many late nights, but didn't care at the time.
I recently discovered a cassette I didn't even remember I had - I'd apparently copied a bunch of stuff, finished and unfinished - and promptly forgot about it. Now I'm really glad I have it. Maybe I'll even finish some of those songs I started 30 years ago... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Brad, When was the last time you listened to the tapes? They may suffer from "sticky tape syndrome". This is not a joke, go a google search. Pre-70's is no problem because the raw tapes used some kind of animal fat in the production as a lubricant (whale blubber?). I don't know. But in the 70's they outlawed it's use and tape manufacturers had to come up with a synthetic which the did and it worked fine. Or so they thought. Some 20 years later the tapes started "drying out" became unplayable. Btw, by accident in the late 80's they switched to another type of synthetic lube that does not show the same problem. Anyway, the problem with STS is quite serious and I've got some tapes effected with it that can not be played. There is a workaround that by heating the tape in a convention oven you can draw out enough lubricate to make it one time playable to make a copy. I have not tried this yet, but I did make sure that the DiLongi convection oven we justy bought was sized properly for a reel. Dave |
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Location: closely held secret | The drying out also causes the stuff to behave like 40 year old scotch tape. You look at it the wrong way, it turns into a million fluttering pieces. |
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Location: NJ | There are studios that will "bake" these tapes for you. It's quite a common practice with old tapes, and there are facilities that have specially-designed ovens and have the expertise to ensure that the outcome is not one of your little sister's EasyBakeOven Brownie projects gone awry . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It just occurred to me that my wife might have thrown out all of my reel to reel tapes last week. I pulled out the Norelco cassette player that you could stack 6 cassettes in. I saved the Sony R to R, but I can't remember seeing the tapes full of stuff from the 60s and early 70s. I still give her hell about getting rid of about 50 perfectly good cassette tapes for $5 at a garage sale. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I unspooled as much as I dared.
I think it's in fine shape. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | If you stillneed any help, The Station here has Some reel to reel Otari's that are still working.
Depending on the Tape Speed and the condition of the Reels, I might be able to help you. Let me know If you still need any help. |
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