Any Reel guys interested in a tape swap?
- Thread starter Wardsweb
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goldear
Certifiable Audio Junkie
Note: I have one concern: The tapes that get mailed to and from Canada can be an issue... Customs can be a serious b***h, and they consistently delay shipments both to and from Canada for more than a week in my experieince! And they will are very liekly to put a duty onto all shipments recieved into Canada. Also: Media mail travels at glatial speeds both to and from Canada. It can easily take a month or more in my experience! 
So.. the one week rotation is probably an overly ambitious schedule that has been layed-out here...
Being farily close to Canada myslef, I can forsee myself potentially getting seriously pinched with no time to listen, and always sending my tape off way late (dependind upon how the rotation is setup). :sigh: I'm not complaining here; I'm excited to participate!
But it is an issue that you planners need to be aware of...
So.. the one week rotation is probably an overly ambitious schedule that has been layed-out here...Being farily close to Canada myslef, I can forsee myself potentially getting seriously pinched with no time to listen, and always sending my tape off way late (dependind upon how the rotation is setup). :sigh: I'm not complaining here; I'm excited to participate!
But it is an issue that you planners need to be aware of...wordman001
Active Member
Delays
Obviously the person trying to listen to a tape in rotation sets the speed of the rotation, When You Recieve It & When You Listen To It........ You will then send it on to the next name on the list, we have to assume good will here.....
Obviously the person trying to listen to a tape in rotation sets the speed of the rotation, When You Recieve It & When You Listen To It........ You will then send it on to the next name on the list, we have to assume good will here.....
Just a note to say I haven't forgotten about the swap. Still working with Travis to roll everyone in. Besides taking this at a nice slow pace is more in the style of enjoyment and not work, which is what we all want to get away from. Hang in there, the swap will happen.
mhardy6647
Lunatic Member
I haven't even re-hooked up the TASCAM yet, so I think the pace is just about right 
Fall is always nutzo time in New England; everything instantly ramps back up after labor day.
Fall is always nutzo time in New England; everything instantly ramps back up after labor day.
Wardsweb said:
How is everyone coming on getting their tapes recorded? If everyone could send me an email to let me know if you would be ready to ship next Monday I would appreciate it. In addition, I will reply with your routing slip so you will know what your rotation will be. My email address is tcwesq@texas.net.
Thanks,
Travis
We are getting close to LAUNCH DATE
I have received several emails from folks letting me know there tapes have been recorded and ready to go. I have sent each of you a reply. I have not heard from several folks by email yet, please let me know your status:
Ready
Not ready, need more time _____ days, a week, whatever
Not ready, count me out for this round, will catch up next time.
Just a quick short email will be fine, just so I will have everyone's email address to create an email group for 10.5" and an email for 7" group.
As things stand right now, we will all ship a week from tomorrow. Please email me at tcwesq@texas.net as soon as possible so that I can get everything finalized.
Travis
tcwesq@texas.net
I have received several emails from folks letting me know there tapes have been recorded and ready to go. I have sent each of you a reply. I have not heard from several folks by email yet, please let me know your status:
Ready
Not ready, need more time _____ days, a week, whatever
Not ready, count me out for this round, will catch up next time.
Just a quick short email will be fine, just so I will have everyone's email address to create an email group for 10.5" and an email for 7" group.
As things stand right now, we will all ship a week from tomorrow. Please email me at tcwesq@texas.net as soon as possible so that I can get everything finalized.
Travis
tcwesq@texas.net
enewcombjr
Member
Clarify Swap Tapes Idea
I hope not to be too negative, but I think this idea needs to be clarified to be successful.
The real gain of this idea it seems to me, is for those members into different machines, different tape formulations, different bias settings, all the variables that make analog such an involving hands on world. Those individuals take great pride in their knowledge, equipment, and results of their efforts. These probably would be time consuming carefully made recordings, on pricey tapes, on quality reels, or the differences would not be satisfying to the creator or easily comparable for the knowledge of differences to be learned.
Shipping the same tapes around involves lots of repeated mailing costs, many opportunities for handling damage, potential user problems, wrinkled tape, broken leaders, stored improperly at fast rewind speed, stored in a bad place overnight, breaks with splices, swapped reels, etc. Problems could lead to loss of pen pals.
If it is quickie recordings on not too expensive tape, on not too pricey reels, it may be easy, even if problems occur, but, then for what reason? Maybe I am missing something, but it seems like working for the post office to me.
Discussions, recommendations, downloads, copies of CDs can handle exposure to other types of music. Perfect R2R reproduction is not needed to decide if you want to hear more of something. Then, asking someone for an awesome analog copy of what you now know you like makes some sense to me, but, what is the analog tape to be made from? If a CD, just burn and mail a copy and let the recipient make his own tape.
Does that mean we are down to copies made from other tapes, LPs or Live Broadcasts? Well, those are also going to fit into the time consumng, quality and pricey materials, careful shipping category I think.
Reading the name of the thread, I thought you were going to suggest people list their duplicate, or unwanted prerecorded tapes, and work out a swap with others on the forum, this one for that, only shipping each tape once.
Hope I haven't been too much of a downer, Elliott
I hope not to be too negative, but I think this idea needs to be clarified to be successful.
The real gain of this idea it seems to me, is for those members into different machines, different tape formulations, different bias settings, all the variables that make analog such an involving hands on world. Those individuals take great pride in their knowledge, equipment, and results of their efforts. These probably would be time consuming carefully made recordings, on pricey tapes, on quality reels, or the differences would not be satisfying to the creator or easily comparable for the knowledge of differences to be learned.
Shipping the same tapes around involves lots of repeated mailing costs, many opportunities for handling damage, potential user problems, wrinkled tape, broken leaders, stored improperly at fast rewind speed, stored in a bad place overnight, breaks with splices, swapped reels, etc. Problems could lead to loss of pen pals.
If it is quickie recordings on not too expensive tape, on not too pricey reels, it may be easy, even if problems occur, but, then for what reason? Maybe I am missing something, but it seems like working for the post office to me.
Discussions, recommendations, downloads, copies of CDs can handle exposure to other types of music. Perfect R2R reproduction is not needed to decide if you want to hear more of something. Then, asking someone for an awesome analog copy of what you now know you like makes some sense to me, but, what is the analog tape to be made from? If a CD, just burn and mail a copy and let the recipient make his own tape.
Does that mean we are down to copies made from other tapes, LPs or Live Broadcasts? Well, those are also going to fit into the time consumng, quality and pricey materials, careful shipping category I think.
Reading the name of the thread, I thought you were going to suggest people list their duplicate, or unwanted prerecorded tapes, and work out a swap with others on the forum, this one for that, only shipping each tape once.
Hope I haven't been too much of a downer, Elliott
I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. We're just swapping samplers. I for one really don't expect to hear a lot of difference in recording quality due to machines or formulations and am looking forward to hearing different comp tapes.
As far as expense, a couple of bucks every week to ship a tape really isn't that bad, especially when you get an exposure to some hopefully new music. After all, I don't think everyone's shipping their recording of "Dark side of the Moon", are they??
Heck, you want nuts? Check out the Crap Swap Thread; now that's something really wacky! :lmao:
As far as expense, a couple of bucks every week to ship a tape really isn't that bad, especially when you get an exposure to some hopefully new music. After all, I don't think everyone's shipping their recording of "Dark side of the Moon", are they??
Heck, you want nuts? Check out the Crap Swap Thread; now that's something really wacky! :lmao:
FWIW:
- It is what it is. Like anything else, don't risk what you aren't willing to lose.
- Ship costs might be estimated based on how many people signed up.
- I'm just in it for the music. Whatever quality, whatever groups, however the
tapes are recorded on whatever machines, will all add to how interesting this can
be.
- It is what it is. Like anything else, don't risk what you aren't willing to lose.
- Ship costs might be estimated based on how many people signed up.
- I'm just in it for the music. Whatever quality, whatever groups, however the
tapes are recorded on whatever machines, will all add to how interesting this can
be.
I have sent out the tape routing lists to everyone on the 10.5 inch and 7" lists. If you are on both lists you should have received two emails. If you indicated that you wanted to be on a tape swap list but did not receive and email from me (I was missing two email addresses) please email me right away so that I can get you your list.
We are planning to ship this Wed. if that is good for everyone.
You can email me directly with any questions, problems, etc. at tcwesq@texas.net.
Travis
We are planning to ship this Wed. if that is good for everyone.
You can email me directly with any questions, problems, etc. at tcwesq@texas.net.
Travis
meggy said:
There are 10 people on the 7" list, and 11 on the 10.5 inch list (some have signed up for both lists). 10.5 metal reels have been costing about 3 to $3.50 to ship via media mail. What has been working best is shipping them in a record/lp shipper. No problems of any kind so far. So figure it is going to cost between $33 to $40 for shipping, spread out over 3 months. You will get a new tape to listen to and you will send one every 7 to 10 days.
Travis