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Frustrated by the early days of sound recording
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<blockquote data-quote="Saturlight" data-source="post: 251384" data-attributes="member: 233652"><p><em>SPINEY WROTE: "If it was "essy", you had some sort of fault. Note there was no "standard" tape, ac bias and record level were pre-set for a particular brand!"</em></p><p></p><p>It was cheap, more like, not faulty. My mum and dad were paying the mortgage off, so luxeries like buying me a decent tape recorder, didn't actually fall from the trees.</p><p></p><p>The one I wanted was a Phillips (this is the one with the compact tapes, not the reel-to-reel (that was perfection), but that cost in 1976 around £19.99, a lot of money in those days.</p><p></p><p>So mum bought me a Zaxaron tape recorder for £10, that's the one with the hard esses. <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> Thanks for the info', lads, always great to read. <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Saturlight, post: 251384, member: 233652"] [I]SPINEY WROTE: "If it was "essy", you had some sort of fault. Note there was no "standard" tape, ac bias and record level were pre-set for a particular brand!"[/I] It was cheap, more like, not faulty. My mum and dad were paying the mortgage off, so luxeries like buying me a decent tape recorder, didn't actually fall from the trees. The one I wanted was a Phillips (this is the one with the compact tapes, not the reel-to-reel (that was perfection), but that cost in 1976 around £19.99, a lot of money in those days. So mum bought me a Zaxaron tape recorder for £10, that's the one with the hard esses. :) Thanks for the info', lads, always great to read. :) [/QUOTE]
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