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Suggestion Box / Beatles "Love"
« on: December 03, 2008, 10:22:47 AM »
I was listening to this on vinyl last night and thought what a great release this would be for the Tape Project, if the guys could get their hands on the masters. If you haven't heard "Love", it is the "soundtrack" for the Cirque du Soleil show of the same name, and was produced by George Martin and his son from the original Beatles tapes, with the blessing of the Beatles/estates.  It is, in a way, a new take on the music and makes you hear the songs in a new light. It also gives a complete overview of the Beatles careers, something you don't hear in "Ones" for example, which has no songs from Rubber Soul, just to mention one LP. You hear one new thing - Martin composed some string quartet music to accompany the full acoustic version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - a verse was cut on the White Album. I like it a lot, but others might disagree.

You hear a lot of snippets from various tapes simultaneously - I think I counted bits from 6 different songs in the segue into "Get Back", and honestly, the first time I heard "Love" I hated it. But repeated listenings proved that it is addictive, and provides a new way to listen to the Beatles - the next best thing to a brand new Beatles album.

From what I hear on vinyl, the sound is excellent. Getting the best selling (and best) rock artists of all time in a relatively new release onto the best formatseems to me like it would be a major score. It would probably require a double release (4 tapes), but it would be worth it.

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Suggestion Box / More orchestral blockbusters
« on: November 26, 2008, 11:00:46 PM »
A Mahler symphony, preferably one of the "Wunderhorn" symphonies (2,3,4). I'm open to suggestion with respect to performances. Klemperer maybe for 2? Kletzki for 4? Bernstein for 3 (if good sound can be obtained)?

Bruckner 4 - perhaps the Bohm version (I'd actually prefer the 8th symphony, but my favorite performance, the Karajan with the VPO, is a digital recording.

Schubert - the Great C Major symphony - how about Krips on Decca?

Saint-Saens Organ symphony - yep it is a blockbuster. Can't say I have a favorite recording - the Munch tape used to go for mucho dinero.

Tchaikovsky Symphony 5 - well, not the greatest symphony, but the Mravinksy recording is an incredible reading - intense, subjective and well executed.

Fun.


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Suggestion Box / Some additional suggestions
« on: October 10, 2008, 10:10:53 PM »
Beach Boys' Surf's Up - one of the all time greats.

Jackson Browne For Everyman -ditto

Eric Tingstad On the Links - fantastic solo guitar, didn't make it to CD (thankfully)

Sibelius Symphony #2 Szell




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Tape Project Machines / User Manual for Technics RS1520?
« on: July 25, 2008, 11:05:47 AM »
I now am the proud owner of an RS1520, but I don't have a user manual. I looked at stereomanuals.com - they have a service manual, but no user manual. Anyone know where to obtain a user manual?

Thanks,
Tom

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I have seen on ebay the following:

MX5050 BII XLR
MX 5050 B2 HD
MX5050 B II 2

I know from Doc's post  in the sticky that a MX 5050 BII is supposed to work as is for the TP tapes, but what are these variants? Given the flexibility of RTR hardware, I worry that some variant will mean, oh, it does NAB only, or it is a 3 3/4 and 7.5 machine.

Thanks

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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Trying to clear up my confusion
« on: June 20, 2008, 01:12:45 PM »
I am sure if I read through all of the posts it would be  entirely clear - but want to check. If I understand all correctly, any 15 ips 2 track machine will play the Tape Project tapes, as long as it is equalized for IEC. However, best performance will be achieved by bypassing the native electronics of the machine and modifying it to connect directly from the heads to a better preamp such as a Bottlehead.

Do I have that right?

Under this scenario, a new Otari would work straight out of the box. BTW, how hard is it to switch between IEC and NAD on that unit.

Also what happens to the other functions of the deck after modification? Does it become playback only? If it has a four track playback head (I believe the Otari does) can that still be used?

Thanks!

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