DAT-heads Digest #132

Contents:
  Re: Buying shows (Jimi Hendrix) (ijwthstd)
  Free trade only !! ("Gary Davis")
  Re: Dolby Questions (Tom McCreadie)


From: ijwthstd <ijwthstd@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Buying shows (Jimi Hendrix)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 10:31:18 -0700 (PDT)

> Not trying to start any trouble here related to
> buying
> bootlegs, but I have paid quite a bit for Jimi
> Hendix
> tapes over the years. 

I don't really see what the big deal is either, even
if it seems a bit tacky in this forum. I first started
collecting by buying tapes from people in Goldmine and
Circus Magazine. I have hardly ever bought shows since
I started taping myself not long after but there are a
few shows I would pay a hefty bounty for if that's
what it takes to bring them to the surface. 

Thanks mainly to torrents for making buying and
selling largely unnecessary but not everyone holding a
rare recording believes it's their duty to do a public
service by releasing it to everyone. Hell, even I
don't believe it even if I seed like crazy when I have
broadband access 

(FYI - I will have broadband access this weekend and
will be seeding loads of masters TBD on Dime). 



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From: "Gary Davis" <g@hoxnet.com>
Subject: Free trade only !!
Reply-to: g@hoxnet.com
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 14:27:20 -0700

The rule on DAT-Heads is simple:
If you're not cool enough to get it for free,
you're not cool enough to get it here.
--Gary



From: Tom McCreadie <mccreadi@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Dolby Questions
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 14:16:23 +0200

These are all Dolby-B, with the AN-300 being a 4-channel unit to mate 
with Teac's 4-track reel to reels.

Dolby A is a sophisticated, expensive system for professional 
studios. For example, the Dolby 363 was for unobtrusive 
noise-lowering of 1/2-track 15 ips tapes - i.e. tapes which already 
had low noise by pre-digital criteria <g>

Your terminology was a bit unclear: a "4-track" recorder handles 
4-channels simultaneously, but a "stereo 1/4-track" lays down only 2 
tracks (stereo) in one direction, then another 2 tracks in the 
reverse direction, when the reels are switched. I expect that your 
A-77 has stereo 1/4-track heads. If so, you wouldn't need the AN-300 
Teac model - but it of course won't handle true 4-track tapes (e.g. 
made on a Teac 2340)

Another standalone unit you could look out for is the Nakamichi 
NR-200 (Dolby B/C)

-- 
Tom McCreadie

Mike in #57:
 >I have a Revox A-77 mkII reel to reel deck, with no
 >dolby, and a bunch of reels recorded with Dolby B to
 >transfer. So i've checked out eBay, and have found the
 >Teac AN-60, AN-180 & AN-300 units for sale. My
 >question is, are these Dolby A or B? Just says Dolby
 >on the front of the units.  I have read up a little on
 >the subject, and it seems that Dolby B was a single
 >band & Dolby A was four bands of boost/adjustment.
 >Would these machines work for what I need to do, which
 >is playback home recorded stereo 4-track reels with
 >Dolby B? 




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