Back in the day when duplicating tapes was a day job for me, they
said that side 2 of cassettes duped ay high speed both sides at once
would sound better than the side 1 would. Never made much difference
on cassettes, especially at 64 or 128IPS dupe speed, but some people
told me copying 2 tracks worked better in reverse too... They said
the electronics could respond to transients backwards better than
forwards. I have no empiric evidence of this though.
Just old tape tales by now, but this had me thinking back... or
backwards!
I have transferred some quarter track tapes doing all four tracks at
once top a four channel A/D, and not noticed a significant
difference, but it is easier to do them one side at a time as then
they end up tails out, as long as it is an hourly job and not a mass
flat fee transfer project.
Hope this isn't irrelevant!
Lou
Lou Judson
Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On Oct 8, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Richard L. Hess wrote:
>
>> It's not the digital realm, its the way the reel electronics
>> handle transients and phase
>
> There appears to be waveform differences between playback in the
> two directions after accounting for the polarity flip. To my ears,
> this is an acceptable tradeoff for copying oral history tapes in
> half the time. This is especially true of mid-to-low-fi recordings
> such as some 3.75 and most 1.88 in/s reels.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
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