Some of us who cherish the sound (and look) of our open reel machines are heartened by this news from one of the sellers of open-reel tape.
(you will recall late in 2004 Quategy, which descended from Ampex, shut down its manufacturing plant. Workers were given little notice, but news accounts at the time cited declining markets for tape storage.) ------ http://www.usrecordingmedia.com/qu456grma.html UPDATE Feb 14, 2005: The tape is rolling in and we're painfully and slowly starting to fill our shelves. (We even have 1/4" GP9 and 457 on reels now.) Quantegy has re-instated full audio production again. Also, there definitely will be new studio quality open reel audio tape made here in Pennsylvania with the first tape being available probably in late May 2005 if not sooner. As soon as we have this tape available to you, it'll be posted on this web site. They're going to be making very good tape for almost everyone in the studio through broadcast, government, and even the home recordist. We feel everything from the new tape boxes through the sound and slitting of the tape is going to have a "classic" touch to it. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
