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In Reply to: Awesome estate sale buy today .... posted by reelsmith. on December 16, 2005 at 14:05:59:
A neighbor is dropping off a box of seven-inch reel-to-reel tapes of live shows circa 1974-1976 from a variety of NYC venues. AND... they're all soundboard recordings and are said to be in good condition. Plenty o' big names on the tapes, too. A gold mine.And the local university is letting me have on extended loan an Akai GX-77 deck to transfer this stuff to CD.
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Old tapes can be very fragile. Often, they can only be played once before they start to disintegrate. You would be wise to borrow TWO reel to reel machines to copy them all onto newer tapes. Then make your digital copies, which will be inferior to the originals (IMHO).
Tape from that era can be really brittle. I'll know more when I unpack this stuff and give them a whirl.Good point about making another tape, but I won't have a R2R for long and getting another piece of permanent audio gear in this house could be difficult given spousal consternation about all the stacks of vinyl throughout the house. R2R> CD is the best I can muster at this time.
A couple of years ago, I was trying to transfer some old reels for a friend had from the 60s---they were original recordings of his vocal group which he found after 40 years. They were obviously stored in the attic, and they were so brittle, they kept coming apart on the player. I thought the guy was going to cry---seriously.I was able to salvage most of it, but it was a real pain in the rear.
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