I used to have an A P H machine, but have not had one in years. I never had crosstalk on them. I don't have it in my NLS machine. I'm thinking of buying myself a Narrator player because when I plug in the NLS machine to charge, if you are encoding during the charging, you will hear a hum. I don't really like to do that, so I encode other things while the charging is going on.
The 2-track machines A P H used to sell were real good. I missed them when they got phased out. I had mine a long time, but I think I had to let it go in the 1980's. Overall, recorders were better made and made to last. NOt like now. I think the heads stayed aligned longer, too. But, that's my personal observations. Anybody want to chaallenge that? I started using patch cords when I had the older 2-track machine. What a difference that made! When I used to have a Gulbransen organ, I could not record the tremolo effects with a patch cord; it would cut out when a cord was plugged in, so had to use open mikes. That was bad, because unknown to me, I used to pick up the grandfather's clock in the background chiming every fifteen minutes as the organ was in the dining room of my parents' home at that time. Now, I have an Elka E49 superspinet, and I can record tremolo with a direct patch on it. I can also play back through its speakers if I wanted to, maybe even patch myself twice direct, though I never tried it yet this way. It might be an interesting thing to try on a future recording, doubling up on myself. It would sound like a giant theater organ, I think. I'll have to give it a try. I'm thinking of making some new songs and arrangements and digitizing them into a whole new album. I apologize for going off in another audio direction. But it is fun trying different things and hearing the effects. If they are not good enough, I simply won't release it anywhere. Another thing before I totally forget is when I lived in Nevada, their NLS players don't last as long, and it seemed I had to get another one every three months. I went through NLS players like you would not believe. In California, they last longer, and I've just replaced it once. All I can say is we have a repair department on the ball here. Some libraries have better repair people than others. And for some of you who remember, we used to have crosstalk on 8-track tapes a lot. Bleedovers from other tracks. There was nothing much you could do about that. It was not such a good technology; tapes broke too often, and you had to buy another copy or if you could fix it, break it open and find the break on the single reel and splice it. I think tape hiss was evident on those, too. They were a pain. So, I'm an old hand with this stuff. Once, just for fun, I took the reel from an 8-track and threaded it onto a reel to reel machine and discovered their speed was 3-3/4 ips. That's right! I don't even remember what tape that was, but I thought I would play with it and find out what speed it was on. (Smile) Mimi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Shields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:09 AM Subject: Re: question about recording books > And my A P H desk top machine, that I purchased a couple of years ago, > doesn't have this cross talk problem. But I do have some small problem > with cross talk on my Sony 2 track stereo recorder that's modified to > play NLS tapes, that I purchased from I R T I last year. But it's > really not legible. You have to put your ear to either speaker to here > it, and that's when there's silent portions on the talkingbook tape. > Kevin > > On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 10:48:07 -0700 "Marty Rimpau" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, Terri, wonder if the head alinement is different between your nls > > machine, and your standard tape player? head alinement is very > > critical, especially when you're dealing with the outer tracks, and > > a > > classic example of cross talk was the original 4 track pros that > > irti > > sold in 1996, don't know if they've resolved the cross talk issue or > > not, but the a p h machines don't have this, nor does my tascam > > porta > > studio 03, that I had re-biased for type 1 tape. > > On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:37:46 -0400, Terri Stimmel wrote: > > > > >Hello everyone, > > >I'm trying to copy an NLS book. I'm recording it, using my tape > > deck. You > > >know, with the library tape in one side, and a blank tape in the > > other. > > >Well, I've recorded one tape so far, and I've noticed something > > that I > > >really don't like, but I don't know if there's anything I can do > > about it. > > >When I played the tape in my NLS machine, I had to turn the volume > > up half > > >way, so that I could really hear it well. And I noticed that I > > could hear > > >noise, I believe from the other track. It wasn't coming threw real > > loud, > > >but it was noticeable. > > >What do you all think? Is it something with my tape recorder, or > > is this > > >sort of thing normal? > > >I'm using TDK tapes, and I've always thought that was a good brand. > > >Any thoughts on this will be much appreciated. > > >Terri > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > >http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Marty > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
