[78-L] Removing hiss^

[Michael Biel]

Those cheap drug store tapes were recorded at 15/16 IPS!!!!!  How's that 
for quality!  You think cassettes were crap . . .  The National Archives 
playback set-up was developed from the finest instrumentation grade 
Nagra machines, and were installed by a close friend of mine from high 
school, who I later worked with at a recording studio in NYC. 

Mike Biel

Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:
> Mike Biel comments: Isn't that what Tricky Dick Nixon did about 60 
> years ago?
>
> When Nixon’s White House tapes came up for evaluation as a collection, 
> several experts were called in to examine the tapes and listen to some 
> of them. One of those listeners asked where I thought most of the tapes 
> came from. I said: “I dunno, an audio store or distributor?” “No,” he 
> said. “These were the cheapest tapes available purchased from one or 
> several drug stores near the White House. When the White House needed 
> to replenish these tapes, aides were sent out to a drug store to buy 
> them” To his credit, Nixon did vow to save taxpayers money. Some of the 
> money saved may have gone to fund Chuck Colson’s pension. Nixon’s 
> legacy lives on in the Tea Party party and Sarah (I can see Russia from 
> my back deck) Palin.
>