Through Zero Flanging with a single reel (?) [OT?] [TUBE]?

[puretube]

Anybody played with the azimuth-screw in a r2r tape recorder during playback?

You get that almostfullbandwidt phasing/flanging mixture thingy...
(personnally have never tried to mix it with a dry signal, though).

Now if you`d record on 2 tracks (upper and lower track into one direction)
and mount the playbackhead such that it doesn`t get wiggled left and right
while "standing" on its base,
but that it is "rotatable" a couple of degrees around its center
- which would be exactly in the middle between the 2 tracks -

would you get an acceptable TZF sound? Guess so...

If the recording head is close to the PB head, if your speed is high enough,
you`d get almost no "felt" delay...

now we only need a rocker-pedal to "see-saw" the PB head per pedes...

:?:  :idea:  :!:

[Mark Hammer]

How does this so-called "tape" work?  I've heard about it but never actually seen it.  :wink:  :wink:

[Nasse]

Might work as add-on for tape echo machines...

Nakamichi had a high end cassette player that had some kind of "auto-azimuth" correction, some pictures about the mechanism might be around.

A tip for tape echo owners: Does your Roland Space Echo sound not very vintage? Just take a screwdriver and...

[puretube]

(Mark:) actually, so called tape-recording has been invented to get some
magnetic saturation sound into recordings.

that`s why the first machines where named: "Magnetophon" (Telefunken)




I`ll try to find some time next week to post a small drawing...

ps: 2 other effects were invented by Telef*nken, too:
"WOW" and: "FLUTTER"
nowadays digitally being re-emulated in some pedals...

[Mark Hammer]

Ton:  Cool!

Is that so-called "tape recording" the basis of the so-called "brown sound".  All of the pictures I've seen that had any of that tape stuff in them seemed to be brown.  It could be just discoloration in the pictures (after all it WAS from way back in the 80's), but it sure looked brown to me. :lol:

[puretube]

actually, it was the basis for Alesis`s "ADAT" machines;
guess what: those use black tapes in`em.

guess the b&w photos you`ve seen weren`t fixated long enough...
(happened to me now & then in the old darkroom days...).

[Mark Hammer]

Oh man, is it EVER Friday!!   :lol:  :lol:  :twisted:

[petemoore]

Black Tape Mojo...
  Yupp there are differences in tape quality, I used to like the 'stuff I had labeled 'heavy duty'.
     Increased tape speed generally = increased fidelity...you knew that