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Title: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: High and Outside on June 20, 2014, 04:24:41 PM
Calling all tapeheads. We will be gathering Sunday July 20, 2014, 5 PM in the friendly confines of Michael Romanowski Mastering in central San Francisco, for the express purpose of having a good time and spinning some reels. We have specifically invited the subscribers of the Yahoo reel-to-reel list as well, and promised to be ready to play 7 inch reels as well as Tape Project tapes. Anyone is welcome to bring along any tape you'd like to play.

In this instance we need to know in advance who's coming, so please RSVP to queen at bottlehead dot com. Eileen will confirm by email and include the rest of the details.

Romo, Dan and I will all be there (as well as Queen Eileen, and possibly surprise guests.) More such events are being planned in other cities as well. 
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: ironbut on June 21, 2014, 12:23:54 AM
Sounds fantastic Paul!
I've marked the date and will contact Eileen to RSVP.
I'm looking forward to see everybody again!
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: c1ferrari on June 22, 2014, 08:37:41 AM
Sounds like a great event :-)
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: steveidosound on July 06, 2014, 10:15:33 PM
Remember me...? :-)
If I would still be welcome, I will try to email Bottlehead and set it up to be there.
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: High and Outside on July 08, 2014, 12:46:18 PM
Of course you'd be welcome, Steve.
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: Listens2tubes on July 08, 2014, 06:23:52 PM
Dang! You guys have to do one of these events in the NY/NJ area!


Please post pictures and comments.:-)
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: docb on July 16, 2014, 11:34:51 PM
Just a bump to remind everyone of the listening session this Sunday at the studio, and to please RSVP if you haven't already.
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: TomR on July 18, 2014, 03:04:11 PM
I confirmed by email for my wife Denise and I - should we be expecting a confirming email back?  Address? 

Thanks,

Tom
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: steveidosound on July 18, 2014, 03:20:01 PM
Are you going to be set up to play 1/4 track as well as 2 track 7" reel,  7 1/2 ips. NAB tapes?
(of course as well as Tape Project ones)
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: docb on July 18, 2014, 05:41:20 PM
I confirmed by email for my wife Denise and I - should we be expecting a confirming email back?  Address? 

Thanks,

Tom

Hi Tom,

Eileen is I charge of RSVPs and she is on a little extra vacation from our vacation until tomorrow night, so she may not respond. Consider the two of you added to the attendee list. Ping me at docb at bottlehead dot com and I will send the address. Looking forward to seeing you.
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: docb on July 18, 2014, 05:43:54 PM
Are you going to be set up to play 1/4 track as well as 2 track 7" reel,  7 1/2 ips. NAB tapes?
(of course as well as Tape Project ones)

Hi Steve, we will have Romo's Otari MX-5050B something or other and a Tube Repro at the studio so we can handle 1/4 track NAB no problema.
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: astrotoy on July 19, 2014, 06:14:19 PM
Is the Studio still on Mission?  Don't remember the exact address - between 9th and 10th as I remember.   Larry
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: steveidosound on July 21, 2014, 01:04:59 AM
Thanks to our hosts.
A good time was had by all I trust.
Appreciate the hang-out time and great music.
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: TomR on July 21, 2014, 10:54:47 AM
Let me second that. Always great to see everyone, and hear awesome music. Also great to meet Dan and Eileen for the first time.
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: ironbut on July 21, 2014, 12:20:25 PM
I concur!
Thanks to all who made it possible. The sound was out of this world (as expected).
It was so great to see everybody and chat a bit.

The big Focals sound improved since the last time I heard them (which was quite a while ago). Really tough to tell where the speakers were without looking. And the bass and lower mids filled the room perfectly. They really let the tapes and artists do their thing.

I took a look down the hall at the tracking room and wow! It's like a dream in there.
Just beautiful Michael!

No matter how you slice it, it was a treat!
Thanks again to our hosts!
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: High and Outside on July 21, 2014, 08:10:26 PM
We had lots of fun too. Thanks to everyone who came.

And special thanks to Steve Koto for bringing the Dolby B unit. To Steve Williams for bringing interesting tapes on 7" reels. And to Larry Toy for bringing the other 15 ips reels: Yarlung, Opus 3, International Phonographic, and Lutz Pecision.

We should do this again.
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: c1ferrari on August 06, 2014, 08:51:21 PM
Pics?
Title: Re: Listening party at the studio, SF
Post by: astrotoy on August 09, 2014, 12:19:00 PM
Thanks to Romo, Paul, Dan and Eileen for a great time.  Good to see old friends, too. The next day we drove down to LA to await the birth of our grandson who finally came a week ago, 11 days late. We are unable to spin any tapes here, but are babysitting his 3 yo older sister to help our daughter and son-in-law. So far so good.  Again, thanks for a great time.

Larry