Mellotronists

Tom Malvern at BASF once told me that NO tape
manufacturer will warranty the binder used in
recording tape past 7 years. The two extremes of this
in my memory are that the AGFA tapes that Kean has of
old Mellotron and Chamberlin tapes is holding up
surprisingly well, the early 70's EMI, Scotch 202 and
Ampex stuff is notorius for dropping oxide. Remember
the days when everyone was running around BAKING their
precious Atlantic Classic masters?? If I were *either*
of the Mellotron suppliers, I would be buying as much
of the newer, high quality tape that I could get my
hands on and engineer the machines and repairs to just
DEAL with it. I'm not interested in buying antiquated
tapes at 250.00 a set.

Mark
--- Markus Resch <rah287w@...> wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> When the Emtec company stopped making tapes I knew
> that tape manufacture was
> a volatile business. So I have a long time ago taken
> measures to ensure a
> continued supply of optimum quality tapes for all
> kinds of Mellotrons and
> for the new Mellotron production models, currently
> the MkVI and MkVII.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Markus
> 
> 



		
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