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Post by Stuart Monk on Dec 28, 2020 11:41:48 GMT
I was surprised to discover quite recently that Radio 4 used to provide slots for local programming well into the 70s, made by local teams and only broadcast locally, so this particular show may have been a regular feature in the Bristol area. Reading your adventures to date, I'd be very tempted to bin the machine and hand the tapes over to anyone who'd promise not to hide them away in one of the many dusty archives that we hear about!  Great perseverance on your part. All the best, Stuart |
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Post by A Barron on Dec 28, 2020 13:01:51 GMT
I was surprised to discover quite recently that Radio 4 used to provide slots for local programming well into the 70s, made by local teams and only broadcast locally, so this particular show may have been a regular feature in the Bristol area. Reading your adventures to date, I'd be very tempted to bin the machine and hand the tapes over to anyone who'd promise not to hide them away in one of the many dusty archives that we hear about! Great perseverance on your part. All the best, Stuart Thank you Stuart, that is very helpful. |
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Post by Peter Stirling on Dec 28, 2020 16:27:59 GMT
Update: So far I have only found home recordings and music. I was going to try and do more today however I socially aware up with symptoms of Selenium poisoning and had to go to hospital. I may have ever so slightly opened up the recorder and looked around it before the post about the toxic elements. They kept me there for six hours! They measured my hearts electrical activity three times, they had to prick my finger twice to measure my blood sugar level because apparently I did not bleed well enough the first time. They also took at tested my blood and made me wait with a crazy old drunkard for hours. To make things worse, I am currently fasting to my body reactions and chemicals are not what they normally would be. One of the Nurses had too "Google" Selenium poisoning as apparently they had never had a case of it before. The worst part was, that if I had been poisoned they would have to report it and take away my reel to reel recorder! Thankfully my symptoms were not bad enough for them to want me to say and they were not sure what I should do with the recorder. They told me to come back if my symptoms worsen. My plan is to clean the outside of the reel to reel recorder and if my symptoms do get worse, go to a different hospital and not mention the machine. How was your boxing day? Yikes! sounds like you didn't follow the advice not to touch and sniff burnt out components. or maybe you had Selenium in your Christmas Dinner?..don't worry those Selenium vitamin supplements are low and controlled.... just don't go chopping up old components to put in your Christmas pudding. |
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Post by richardwoods on Dec 29, 2020 11:48:52 GMT
I was surprised to discover quite recently that Radio 4 used to provide slots for local programming well into the 70s, made by local teams and only broadcast locally, so this particular show may have been a regular feature in the Bristol area. Reading your adventures to date, I'd be very tempted to bin the machine and hand the tapes over to anyone who'd promise not to hide them away in one of the many dusty archives that we hear about! Great perseverance on your part. All the best, Stuart NO! Seriously bad advice. Do not under any circumstances bin the Truvox. This is a pretty decent and rather rare model of reel to reel tape recorder these days and worth passing on to a collector if you don’t want to keep it. My advice would be to stick it on eBay with realistic postage & no reserve & then it can go to someone who can restore it. If you don’t want to go to the trouble, & want rid then DM me & I’ll have it!!! |
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Post by A Barron on Dec 29, 2020 12:37:00 GMT
I was surprised to discover quite recently that Radio 4 used to provide slots for local programming well into the 70s, made by local teams and only broadcast locally, so this particular show may have been a regular feature in the Bristol area. Reading your adventures to date, I'd be very tempted to bin the machine and hand the tapes over to anyone who'd promise not to hide them away in one of the many dusty archives that we hear about! Great perseverance on your part. All the best, Stuart NO! Seriously bad advice. Do not under any circumstances bin the Truvox. This is a pretty decent and rather rare model of reel to reel tape recorder these days and worth passing on to a collector if you don’t want to keep it. My advice would be to stick it on eBay with realistic postage & no reserve & then it can go to someone who can restore it. If you don’t want to go to the trouble, & want rid then DM me & I’ll have it!!! Thank you Richard. Although I found the Radio 4 information helpful, I had and still have no intention of getting rid of the Truvox. Thank you for confirming mu decision and a good one. |
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Post by richardwoods on Dec 29, 2020 16:11:33 GMT
That’s a relief. With a bit of restoration it’s potentially a pretty decent reel to reel and most definitely worth hanging on to! The thought of it going into landfill made my blood run cold!
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Post by rebeccajansen on Jun 5, 2021 18:54:52 GMT
I've only transferred reel tape directly to CD-R using a Tascam Professional unit only involving computer processing/digitization at a later point. I feel these direct to digital plugins to a computer program looses some of the information and dynamics right off going by listening, but this might not matter much for non-musical material.
When dealing with possible one of a kind material it's important to know the maker of the vintage tape and consider if shedding might be an issue and finding someone who has a full grasp of baking the tape to stabilize it before playing. The last time I simply handled shedding old tape I got a rash and bumps on my hands so I'm extra wary of dealing with old tape now! My father recorded from the late '50s onward and we only have a bunch of his stuff around anymore, probably to buried along with metal plates with him someday.
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Post by RWels on Jun 5, 2021 19:03:01 GMT
I've only transferred reel tape directly to CD-R using a Tascam Professional unit only involving computer processing/digitization at a later point. I feel these direct to digital plugins to a computer program looses some of the information and dynamics right off going by listening, but this might not matter much for non-musical material. When dealing with possible one of a kind material it's important to know the maker of the vintage tape and consider if shedding might be an issue and finding someone who has a full grasp of baking the tape to stabilize it before playing. The last time I simply handled shedding old tape I got a rash and bumps on my hands so I'm extra wary of dealing with old tape now! My father recorded from the late '50s onward and we only have a bunch of his stuff around anymore, probably to buried along with metal plates with him someday. Oh, what kind of stuff did he record?  |
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Post by richardwoods on Jun 6, 2021 8:04:48 GMT
I've only transferred reel tape directly to CD-R using a Tascam Professional unit only involving computer processing/digitization at a later point. I feel these direct to digital plugins to a computer program looses some of the information and dynamics right off going by listening, but this might not matter much for non-musical material. When dealing with possible one of a kind material it's important to know the maker of the vintage tape and consider if shedding might be an issue and finding someone who has a full grasp of baking the tape to stabilize it before playing. The last time I simply handled shedding old tape I got a rash and bumps on my hands so I'm extra wary of dealing with old tape now! My father recorded from the late '50s onward and we only have a bunch of his stuff around anymore, probably to buried along with metal plates with him someday. Completely agree with your approach on transfers and your experience with computer plug in’s. High quality physical media gives an excellent result & can always be copied to computer later. |
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Post by Stephen Byers on Jun 7, 2021 11:50:32 GMT
THE experts at r-r / cassette > digitisation and sticky shed etc. are the good folk at the "Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List" <ARSCLIST@listserv.loc.gov> Its sponsored by the LOC. You can join for free. See www.arsc-audio.org/listservs.html==== |
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Post by rebeccajansen on Jun 11, 2021 18:47:37 GMT
My father recorded from the late '50s onward and we only have a bunch of his stuff around anymore, probably to buried along with metal plates with him someday. Oh, what kind of stuff did he record? He was an early (for our area) rock and roll enthusiast (also country & western as it was then called) and performed starting in his late teens, even got on local television once (likely never recorded) somewhere in the late '50s. He got a Sony recorder in the '60s and before that was allowed use of other people's machines. We didn't actually get him into a real recording studio though until the 2000s to cut and album of material from his repertoire that wasn't among the home and live band recordings that went back to 1959. I had gone through all of those tapes to create a collection of mostly '60s and '70s performances which we made up in a batch of 150 copies that local people wanted, and a master disc was cut for an LP version that never happened, it just came out on CD. Then we did the same with a new solo set in the studio to tape on vintage machines and then put that out on CD for about as many people as had wanted the earlier material. The only disappointment was the best vintage tape with his amazing yodelling also had some fool in the audience who couldn't yodel picked up trying to loudly imitate him. The second best yodel recording was on video tape at an event in Holland of all places in the 1990s. So we never got that documented as wanted by everyone, and as he got older he lost much of his yodel. Since the pandemic he hasn't performed, and he never has created original material. Oddly enough I have though, and been published and recorded, but that's mainly under the encouragement and for the use of my BF who was also a performer and recording engineer. Long answer to a short question, but thanks for asking. |
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Post by RWels on Jun 11, 2021 19:55:08 GMT
The second best yodel recording was on video tape at an event in Holland of all places in the 1990s. So we never got that documented as wanted by everyone, Wasn't it possible to get the one from Holland then? If it was televised it must be possible to order a copy of that. |
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Post by rebeccajansen on Jun 12, 2021 23:54:34 GMT
The second best yodel recording was on video tape at an event in Holland of all places in the 1990s. So we never got that documented as wanted by everyone, Wasn't it possible to get the one from Holland then? If it was televised it must be possible to order a copy of that. We did, and had it transferred from PAL to NTSC which wasn't cheap at the time, but the audio quality was poor, perhaps because of that transfer. The earlier one with the audience member's attempted yodeling was included as a sort of bonus at the end of the CD along with some performances that were excellent but on low-fi cassette tape. If anyone has heard Slim Clark's yodeling my father was almost that good, plus he studied Swiss yodeling with quite a record collection on that, and even went over there a few and performed... which is a bit like The Beatles bringing American Rock & Roll back to the U.S. |
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Post by RWels on Jun 13, 2021 17:57:40 GMT
We did, and had it transferred from PAL to NTSC which wasn't cheap at the time, but the audio quality was poor, perhaps because of that transfer. Quite possible; it can mess with the speed. If it was longer ago, it may not have been optimal. Perhaps from a fresh start, it would be better. I take it then that you're in North America, despite the Dutch name? |
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Post by rebeccajansen on Jun 18, 2021 2:27:31 GMT
We did, and had it transferred from PAL to NTSC which wasn't cheap at the time, but the audio quality was poor, perhaps because of that transfer. Quite possible; it can mess with the speed. If it was longer ago, it may not have been optimal. Perhaps from a fresh start, it would be better. I take it then that you're in North America, despite the Dutch name? Yes, we're in western Canada, ranging up and down into the U.S. sometimes. I do pull for team Oranje in football though as much as for England's side.  |
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