![]() ![]() The number of tape decks and tape stock used for making major label release records was even smaller! If you looked at the over-all sales of analog tape and analog tape recording/reproducing devices over the years you would find that music recording was a small portion of the sales. Remember that the first large scale use of analog tape was in radio broadcasting and not music. It was always subsidized by the government/industrial industry. The number of records made is not large enough to support the "machinery" required to design, build and market analog tape machines. ![]() Government, industrial, radio/TV and film production not having to buy reels of tape because of digital storage killed analog tape. The price of recording your own music became much cheaper because of digital and the small studios quit buying new tape decks. This comes straight from the mouths of Ampex and other company's executives. The music business wasn't large enough to support the costs of what it took to produce and sell analog tape recorders at a profit. The market for the bulk of analog tape recording equipment was military/industrial use and once they went to digital storage analog tape storage was no longer profitable. (obviously only until the oxide is all but gone)Īmpex, Otari, MCI and Studer do not make tape recorders any longer because the market went away. Tracking to tape and dumping to PT can be a great way to preserve some "quality" and even keep around a few quantegy reels for the bands that want tape but cna't afford new ack ot that.stripe it clean afterwards and charge less to use that reel over again. i can also edit tape without TOO much hasle, the problem really is the bands that need TONS of editting. ![]() Nickelbacks latest was mixed ITB, i assumed it was tracked to PT as well?Īnd tape machines in my opinion aren't really all that horribly expensive to maintain, sure it COULD be a bit costly, but keeping a nice machine running is all in the care you take, i find calibrating tape pretty easy, simple, and fun ot track to. who knows, we are still sitting at a corner stone to the recording technology of the future. Maybe the companies could start putting actual reels into the outboard gear. I know their is a portico design that is doing well. And, it would be cheaper, easier, more reliable, and hopefully spot on. ![]()
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