Sam here and i'm not saying 8 track was as dependable as cassette or vinyl however to my ears it sounded more organic and natural like you were live in the studio the drums for sure sounded alive that is why i use 8 track frequencies to apply to digital and the digital just comes alive.
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Guitarsam, I like how you roll. Job well done. I will never forget the nostalgia of being young and stupid while listening to my 8Ts in my Pacer. In retrospect, what a sweet appreciation for that time in my life. No one could make the argument that 8Ts were better than just about anything available now but it sure was a lot of fun. |
hennigan thanks for the history, I was passing on what I read somewhere, you certainly filled in some blanks. ............................................ rimci, the Pacer, you got me to LOL. Did you ever see the movie with Danny Devito, Drowning Mona where a Yugo was a central player? YWLYAO ........................................... mcmvmx yes, the premium tapes also used special equalization settings (your machine had to have those options), and DBX came along as an alternate to Dolby Noise Reduction you mentioned. Way back, before 8T, Dolby was available for 4 track 7" reel to reel tapes, Barclay Crocker issued a lot of Dolby R2R. My Teac R2R machines have DBX Professional Noise Reduction as an option, not Dolby. I haven’t seen a R2R player with Dolby option, anybody? ...................................................... GuitarSam, One of the advantages of any Tape format is the physical separation of L from R, separate pickup by the heads, then played back with greater separation. Phono cartridges have varying degrees of separation during playback, good/better/best cartridge, good/better/best stylus tip to make good/better/best groove contact, not to mention the combo of cantilever/arm/deck/feet of a TT. I suspect your memory of ’not so 3D’ LP was what you heard from a not so great cartridge/stylus shape/cantilever/TT, Thus LP less separation than your memory of 8T, especially in an era when track separation and experimentation was prevalent. My new MC cartridge has channel sep of over 30db, channel balance 0.5db. It just retired my former favorite with sep 25db, bal 1.5db. I am sure the greater separation is why I prefer it. My TT in the days of 8 Track was ..... certainly crappp So, I’ll concede to your 3D memory, but never on 8T IQ. .......................................... found this link, a site I didn’t know about http://cultureandcommunication.org/deadmedia/index.php/8-track_Tape excerpt " in 1964 the 8-track was created by Ralph Miller, an associate of Bill Lear " It seems 8T arrived in cars first, home players later, I had forgotten that. |
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