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today's Misguided Tour

bre's dad

bre's dad

I drank what?!?
Long story short, I went to a mid-high end audio shop today to do some R2R troubleshooting (wanted to confirm it's the tape and not my deck, which we did.) Though it's not a vintage store, the owner is a tape head and they have several (mostly functioning) reel to reels, including some studio recorders and a library of master tapes. We talked for quite awhile about the format, history of the recording I brought and some grandiose plans they have to turn part of their warehouse into an event center. They want to host local bands, break out the studio gear and do mini sessions, including making tapes available to their clientele (basically anyone off the street that knows what tape is). They wouldn't break out a master of the tape I brought up to compare to mine (for troubleshooting, not to see if it sounds better) but was still fun none the less. Photos are of some of their toys.
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Very cool...but I tend to doubt that they have master tapes in their collection. Those are pretty hard to come by!
 
spark1 said:
Very cool...but I tend to doubt that they have master tapes in their collection. Those are pretty hard to come by!
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So are Mara decks-who knows what these guys can get ahold of.

I probably could hang and talk tape with these dudes all day-I do know that
 
spark1 said:
Very cool...but I tend to doubt that they have master tapes in their collection. Those are pretty hard to come by!
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A lot of of their masters are local stuff, though he did say they have a few rare 4th gen masters, if I understood correctly
 
Cool equipment! Our local record shop guy had a ton of odd stuff, he had stories going back to the 70's and knew all of the local recording studios. He ended up with tapes and stuff just because he was the last one standing and in business. Don't be surprised by what these guys might have in the back room.

The event concept kind of reminds me of NOAH over in Tokyo, you can rent just about any instrument and jam in a room with more equipment and it's pretty cheap. I'm not sure if they had tape equipment but it wouldn't surprise me. We also used to have a bar back home that had open band night, they had instruments layed out and you could jam on stage. The room was pretty small but for a slow night it was a lot of fun.
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