[78-L] half track tapes

[Michael Biel]

As I noted in my posting a couple of minutes before, YOU DO have a
player for staggerd track tapes.  Your Otari 5050 has the record and
play heads at the correct spacing.  Put the lead track in Play and the
other track in Sel-Rep which turns the record head into a play head.  It
will then play the tape!!!

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

From: bradc944 at comcast.net

 
 Another machine that has quarter- and half-track playback capability is
the Otari MX5050. I have two in the garage, one in rack-mount and one in
the floor-stand-with-casters arrangement. The switch is somewhere close
to the playback head, seen if you flip up the head-cover.
 
 Another point about half-track tapes is that most were in-line (both
tracks exactly the same place on the tape, readable by one head), but
some were staggered so that two mono heads would play back the stereo.
Unfortunately I don;t have a player for those.
 
 Brad
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: Robert M. Bratcher Jr. 
 To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
 Sent: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 17:12:59 +0000 (UTC)
 Subject: Re: [78-L] half track tapes
 
 At 09:41 AM 8/8/2009, you wrote:
 >Remember the Wollensak with its dial for shifting the playback head
down a
 >millimetre or two to play half-track tapes with equal balance? Any
other
 >machines have a feature like that?
 
 Which model is that? I had a worn out Webcore Music Man that would 
 shift the playback head with a lever on the back of the head 
 assembly. Threw it away when it stopped playing tapes at 3.75 ips & 
 was having trouble with 7.5 ips. Belts were shot really bad but then 
 I got it for free.....
 
 >Today, of course, you just look for a Technics 1500 with the quarter-
and
 >half-track playback heads. Still quite a few of them out there.
 >
 >dl
 
 Yes for 1.5k to 1.7k on the bay site. 
 
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