[sdiy] cheap and decent reel to reel recommendations?

[Gene Stopp]

Suddenly I feel sheepish for posting that I cannibalize old reel2reels for
the springs and motors :)

But they were hopeless, I tell you! Their souls live on in my spring-loaded
pots! And none of them were TEACs. Those I still have running.

- Gene


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Grenader [mailto:peter at buzzclick-music.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 7:47 AM
To: James Patchell; denshi; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] cheap and decent reel to reel recommendations?


Jim is right.  the 40-4s are great.  Along those lines, too are Fostexs.  I
just borrowed one from a friend to do tape transfers.  Fine machine, also
with a variable speed pot on the faceplate.




 James Patchell wrote:

> One machine I didn't see mentioned is the Teac 40-4.  It is sort of like
an
> industrial grade 3340.  It is built like a tank.  However, the capstan is
> run by a synchronous motor, so, it will not have variable speed (except
for
> the two that you can select).  If you were industrious, you could replace
> the capstan motor with a servo motor and make it variable speed (since you
> did mention you were willing to modify).
> 
> At 08:50 PM 9/10/2003 -0700, denshi wrote:
>> any veterans of tape splicing/musique concrete have
>> recommendations for a decent and affordable reel to
>> reel machine?  i would like to explore some of the
>> tape techniques that i take for granted on computers.
>> 
>> 
>> it needs to be affordable, and i would like to modify
>> it to have variable speed with a pot (unless of course
>> thats a feature).  so far ive seen some interesting
>> ureh and akai models, but im looking for suggestions.
>> thanks all!
>> 
>> seth s. nemec
>> 
>> 
>> 
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