If the entire tape is flipped (aka playing on the backing (mylar side), the easiest way is to flip both spools so the tape is run inside the shell, not the normal parh through the cassette shell. You can use a cassette mechanism to quickly wind the tape to the other spool then flip the reels back rethread the tape through the normal tape path. This puts the oxide side of the tape back to proper position to read the magnetic recording. Playing from the mylar side is equivalent to an oxide covered head that needs to be cleaned. Hope this helps anyone else who might encounter a back side towards the head.
back in the early 80's, we would (awkwardly) experiment with multi tape player recording when writing song (poorly). none of us could afford a proper 4+ track recorder at the time , but we all had boom boxes and home stereos, so we would treat each player as a channel and mix them down into a single master ( ahh the mother of invention and inventiveness of youth) often if we wanted a backmask in a song , someone would record the portion normally and we would physically open the cassette and flip the tape and record the track backmasked. it was a ghetto setup at the time , but it worked, I am sure we have tapes floating around out there if any survived that would puzzle people in this same way. I wish I still had some of those old masters and track recordings, I am sure some of the guuys would still have a few kicking around, but I havent seen or contacted most of the guys in close to if not over 40 years
a quicker way; before opening, just turn the hub to the opposite direction with the pen, all the way to the other end, then open it, flip the empty hub.
As it's spooled against the normal curl of the magnetic tape, we can see how much it wants to curl back that way. I've dealt with tapes where there were *two* flipped points from where it was previously fouled in a mechanism. The tape inverted between the flipped points. What pain in the arse to deal with.
That happened to my Adam and the Ants tape but it was easy to fix, I just backed it up with a pencil to before the flip and let the tape deck play it to the end. The tape pad was fine, the tape was a gift and it had no case until I found it one. NO don't hit fast forward! For my tape's situation playing it on normal speed worked but you have to sit there ready to slam the pause button just in case it screws up again, if you walk away it will.
This probably happened not because the tape was spliced, but probably because the end of the tape came loose from the plastic disk (take-up reel). When assembling, the person who did it assembled it the wrong way around?
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I am not sure about scotch tape for the splice. It is too thin, and tears easily as soon as there is edge damage. Thanks.
I tend to agree with this poster. If you know that this tape will only be played once or twice more for archiving purposes and never again, I imagine that Scotch tape will do the trick. But if your client might potentially play it again on a tape deck, the cellophane-tape-used-as-splicing-tape is an accident waiting to happen (esp. if the oxide tape cuts loose from the leader tape, which could conceivably happen even during fast-forwarding and rewinding). I imagine that even transparent packing tape could make for a stronger splice point. The other thing I was taught about cutting the tape diagonally is that it makes for a stronger, more durable splice point than a perpendicular splice. But with audio editing, depending on how “tight” of a splice you need to make, you might not have a choice; you might need to resort to a perpendicular splice to make the sonic transition sound as smooth as possible. Ah yes, the wonderful era before Pro-Tools!! 😂🤪🎵
hi been there i have a otari DP2700 had i fire in side the deck i did fix it and find away to use the deck again 1 of 2 i jazz up the tenson on the deck and i have some BASF 8 1/4 spools they had the 1/8 tape on them when i get a tape like this i find the start cut the tapeand pull the tape out of the cassette and rew the tape to the spool as the tape is going on th reel you can spot the tape note reel to reel decks the back tenson is far to high and will break the tape i have a otari mtr 12 i have jazzed up the tenson i made a mini pcb where the rew ff motors are so i have fine power dealing
If the entire tape is flipped (aka playing on the backing (mylar side), the easiest way is to flip both spools so the tape is run inside the shell, not the normal parh through the cassette shell. You can use a cassette mechanism to quickly wind the tape to the other spool then flip the reels back rethread the tape through the normal tape path. This puts the oxide side of the tape back to proper position to read the magnetic recording.
Playing from the mylar side is equivalent to an oxide covered head that needs to be cleaned. Hope this helps anyone else who might encounter a back side towards the head.
back in the early 80's, we would (awkwardly) experiment with multi tape player recording when writing song (poorly). none of us could afford a proper 4+ track recorder at the time , but we all had boom boxes and home stereos, so we would treat each player as a channel and mix them down into a single master ( ahh the mother of invention and inventiveness of youth) often if we wanted a backmask in a song , someone would record the portion normally and we would physically open the cassette and flip the tape and record the track backmasked. it was a ghetto setup at the time , but it worked, I am sure we have tapes floating around out there if any survived that would puzzle people in this same way. I wish I still had some of those old masters and track recordings, I am sure some of the guuys would still have a few kicking around, but I havent seen or contacted most of the guys in close to if not over 40 years
a quicker way; before opening, just turn the hub to the opposite direction with the pen, all the way to the other end, then open it, flip the empty hub.
Why not just wind the tape backwards, and then take it out and flip it over?
As it's spooled against the normal curl of the magnetic tape, we can see how much it wants to curl back that way. I've dealt with tapes where there were *two* flipped points from where it was previously fouled in a mechanism. The tape inverted between the flipped points. What pain in the arse to deal with.
That happened to my Adam and the Ants tape but it was easy to fix, I just backed it up with a pencil to before the flip and let the tape deck play it to the end.
The tape pad was fine, the tape was a gift and it had no case until I found it one.
NO don't hit fast forward! For my tape's situation playing it on normal speed worked but you have to sit there ready to slam the pause button just in case it screws up again, if you walk away it will.
This probably happened not because the tape was spliced, but probably because the end of the tape came loose from the plastic disk (take-up reel). When assembling, the person who did it assembled it the wrong way around?
I am not sure about scotch tape for the splice. It is too thin, and tears easily as soon as there is edge damage. Thanks.
I tend to agree with this poster. If you know that this tape will only be played once or twice more for archiving purposes and never again, I imagine that Scotch tape will do the trick. But if your client might potentially play it again on a tape deck, the cellophane-tape-used-as-splicing-tape is an accident waiting to happen (esp. if the oxide tape cuts loose from the leader tape, which could conceivably happen even during fast-forwarding and rewinding). I imagine that even transparent packing tape could make for a stronger splice point.
The other thing I was taught about cutting the tape diagonally is that it makes for a stronger, more durable splice point than a perpendicular splice. But with audio editing, depending on how “tight” of a splice you need to make, you might not have a choice; you might need to resort to a perpendicular splice to make the sonic transition sound as smooth as possible. Ah yes, the wonderful era before Pro-Tools!! 😂🤪🎵
hi been there i have a otari DP2700 had i fire in side the deck i did fix it and find away to use the deck again 1 of 2
i jazz up the tenson on the deck and i have some BASF 8 1/4 spools they had the 1/8 tape on them
when i get a tape like this i find the start cut the tapeand pull the tape out of the cassette and rew the tape to the spool
as the tape is going on th reel you can spot the tape
note reel to reel decks the back tenson is far to high and will break the tape
i have a otari mtr 12 i have jazzed up the tenson i made a mini pcb where the rew ff motors are so i have fine power dealing
You don't make it easy for yourself!