Now THAT is interesting, and truly a format I was unaware of. So much to
learn, so little time in life..
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One format that has always puzzled me was the early Brush Soundmirrors
that used a half track positioned in the middle of the tape. Was the
idea to reduce the effects of poor tape guiding at the expense of
fringe effects?
A side effect of this is that when exploring a batch of paper based tape
that had been reused on half track machines, I was able to recover the
original recordings, mostly McCarthy-Army hearings and radio dramas, by
positioning a quarter track head to read between the two newer tracks.
How often do archivists check for residual recordings of this kind on
tapes of this vintage? There could be interesting stuff there.
Mike Csontos
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Subj: Re: [ARSCLIST] Distance between staggered heads
What was the oddest track format or spacing for an audio tape you have
run into so far ? Just curious... I know that instrumentation tapes are
a different animal, but I wondered about audio tape formats. I am
familiar with many of them myself, but you have more exposure to the
old and odd than I do.
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