Open metalthrow opened 5 years ago
Hi, Sorry to hear that. I've tested it both with cassette tape and with 1/4" tape from a Nagra. Clearly the 1/4" tape is much easier, because it's a single mono signal going one direction along the tape. However, I did get it to work roughly with cassette tape, although the signal was substantially lower in output, and your have four simultaneous tracks - left & right x 2 (backwards & forwards) on each bit of tape, which can quite quickly become noise. A secondary issue was that when I tried it with spoken word tapes (language cassettes) I quickly realised that for every inch of speech there might be 3-4 inches of silence, which makes the whole thing a bit tricky. You're getting roughly 2 inches of tape per second of sound - which should give an idea how fast to move the head.
Thank you for the reply so promptly. I'm going to try out some 1/4'' tape and see fi that helps. I also noticed in the demo video there something on top the tape , did you glue it to the paper? also does foamcore vs. paper make a difference
I have a Magnetophon with an external playback head. When rubbing the tape head across tape stuck to a sheet of foamcore or hard paper, I've tried both, it just sounds like the back of a credit. I'm wondering if anyone has experimented with this and knows if it is possible to obtain the cassette's actual sounds on it when manually pushing the head on to the tape?