[78-L] Removing hiss^

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 02:37 PM 2/8/2010, you wrote:
>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

So what brands were the tapes? AudioTape? Shamrock? No name white box 
stuff? Or something else?

>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.
> >