Reel to Reel: Advantages vs. Disadvantages?

[The Donger]

Who here owns one, and feels they are still usefull?

How hard is it to do your own edits on it?

Can you record new music over an old reel like a normal tape?

etc...

[Jamie 3:26]

They are very useful.I actually want a better reel than I have now.I don't even use the thing now.The advantage is the warm sound.

I noticed a big difference in tunes I recorded on the reel and tunes I recorded right to cd.There is a big difference.

Splicing on a reel to reel is an art.I can do a decent edit on tape,but it takes so damn long.I can not freak the hell outta a tape edit on reel.I know of only a few cats here who could freak a edit on reel...and make that shit sound like it was digitally done..Hugo H.,Mike Dunn,Gene Hunt,Lil Louis and Frankie of course.

You can only pass over reel tapes a few times.They also will deteriorate if you do not store them properly.I have about 8 reels worth of edits and music.

Having a reel can do a good job in the lab.You can get a nie amount of music on one reel,it just depends on the recording speed,which can also effect the sound quality or your recording.

[GROOVE VICTIM]

I use to make mixes using my brothers reel to reel. No different and the sound quality was excellent.

[JMJ]

I had both the Pioneer RT909 and the RT707. I still have the 707 which I use for nothing more than listening to my old GCI mixes. Jamie is right about the tape deterioration. I was going to transfer one of the mixes to CD the other night and it snapped on me!! Radio Shack no longer carries splicing tape, by the way. I use SoundForge to do edits now.....JMJ

[The Donger]

http://www.dantiques.com/tapedecks/images/22748.jpg

[JMJ]

Originally posted by Ghost Of Donger:
http://www.dantiques.com/tapedecks/images/22748.jpg I used to have an old Teac that looked just like that. Wait....Is that my long lost Teac??? Security!!!!!......JMJ graemlins/mecry.gif

[DJ George Bates]

I've got a pioneer 707.. I don't use it at this point but I wouldn't trade it for the world...in Chicago a good part of this thing we call house was built on a pioneer reel to reel. i record into one of my laptops and then edit from there... i will use the reel one day tho...even if it's just for " old time's sake " ...

[Chip_E]

A "LOT" of the people that you think did their own tape edits...DIDN'T!
I learned the art back in my days at Columbia College...studying broadcasting.
If nothing else, doing a manual tape splice gives you an ear for well done and not so well done edits.
Of course the two best editors in Chicago were Erasmos (sp?) and Hotrod.

-e.

[Jamie 3:26]

Originally posted by Chip_E:
A "LOT" of the people that you think did their own tape edits...DIDN'T!
I learned the art back in my days at Columbia College...studying broadcasting.
If nothing else, doing a manual tape splice gives you an ear for well done and not so well done edits.
Of course the two best editors in Chicago were Erasmos (sp?) and Hotrod.

-e. Brother Chip,you are correct about Erasamso Rivera.His edits were dope and I do know Frankie played a lot of his edits.His Ramshorn edits of Sing,Sing and You're just the right size are classics.

[JMJ]

Originally posted by Chip_E:
A "LOT" of the people that you think did their own tape edits...DIDN'T!
I learned the art back in my days at Columbia College...studying broadcasting.
If nothing else, doing a manual tape splice gives you an ear for well done and not so well done edits.
Of course the two best editors in Chicago were Erasmos (sp?) and Hotrod.

-e. Wow!! Hotrod! I forgot all about him!!....JMJ

[Jamie 3:26]

That's right Chip.Hot Rod did the remix to Like This.I forgot about him.

[mdpm99]

half track/15ips/10inch reel

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[E-Phi]

Originally posted by Chip_E:
A "LOT" of the people that you think did their own tape edits...DIDN'T!
I learned the art back in my days at Columbia College...studying broadcasting.
If nothing else, doing a manual tape splice gives you an ear for well done and not so well done edits.
Of course the two best editors in Chicago were Erasmos (sp?) and Hotrod.

-e. So true, so true. Columbia College is where I learned to splice tape. Hell, I still have my splicing block graemlins/rofl.gif Because of that class, I went out and found me a Pioneer 707 graemlins/thumbsup.gif . Then I took a class called Random Access Audio where we learned to do edits (music & vox) on the computer using Sound Designer II (on a Mac of course). Guess what I went out and got after that class graemlins/grinyes.gif