Date:         Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:00:12 -0800
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Hi Richard

It is true that the Isopropyl Drip machine - Mark II was adapted to a Studer
B67.  It made sense to do this as most of the recordings of the era of LOL &
SSS had been made on the B67's, which were in abundance.  But many other
preservation transfers were done using the latest Studers at that time, such
as the 810 and some newer ones which I can't remember offhand.

Cheers
Kiwi

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Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Tape transport gentleness was delicacy WAS reel
choices was help in fair pricing of reel to reel machines

At 06:00 PM 2007-01-24, Tape Archive wrote:
>Hi Richard,
>
>I'm glad one of my machines made your list. The Ampex 100(104 at our
>facility).
>
>I've got some catching up to do. Hello Ebay?
>

Hello, Bruce, Goodbye Ebay,

No, I don't think you need to do any catching up. I think what works 
for you is a good thing. Heck, Kiwi did all her great transfers in NZ 
on B67s which worked for her.

It's all how you work and what you become used to. Since you're 
already invested in ATR-100s (presumably having solved the issues 
that Steve worries about with the transport going crazy on bad 
splices) that is a fantastic platform going forward. It's one of very 
few recorders with real support (from Spitz). Alan Silverman uses an 
ATR-102, I think, for his work perhaps with the Aria electronics.

I know I addressed my message to you, but that was in error--I had 
read your reply about Otaris and had your name in my mind. I wish I 
had known you were into MTR-10s/12s when I sold mine to Wes Dooley -- 
I don't think he got his money back.

Cheers,

Richard


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