Tape Media - Comments by DexterMiller

Tape Media - Comments by DexterMiller

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
DexterMiller 18th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Connie Francis And Hank Williams, Jr. - Sing Great Country Favorites (1964)	Purple label reel was the first issue (1963?); black label, 1965 reissue; white label with "abstract" lion, 1967/'68 reissue. "C" suffix was an Ampex pricing code for a first-run catalog title tape retailing for $7.95 (there were other codes as well; each for: various prices of reels costing between $5.95 -for budget, 3 3/4IPS "Popular"- to...three-reel complete operas costing $21.95, during the '60s).
DexterMiller 17th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel The Beatles - Revolver (1969)	The ONLY 7 1/2IPS REEL-RELEASE IN THE WORLD CONTAINING THE U.K. TRACKLISTING IN STEREO. AMAZING!
DexterMiller 16th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Cream - Best Of Cream (1969)	The stereo single version of WHITE ROOM is used on this compilation.
DexterMiller 15th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Traffic - Traffic (1968)	A tape duplicator such as MAGTEC (formerly: "Greentree/Bell & Howell" and, later "Stereotape") would just invert the playing sides if one was longer than the other(!). So, here: the album counterpart's "side 2" plays as "side 1".
DexterMiller 15th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel The Animals - Animalization (1966)	There's nearly a three-minute blank space at the beginning of side 1 due to side 2 having a longer running time. Auto-reverse decks still were not widely common yet in the mid-'60s; so, this was before tape duplicators would (later) start repositioning tracks as-to try to achieve parity between the lengths of each side.
DexterMiller 11th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Three Dog Night - Harmony (1971)	This is a reissue from '72 or '73. The initial reel release was a 7 1/2ips copy made by Ampex.
DexterMiller 11th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass - The Brass Are Comin' (1969)	This dubbing is true stereo and not processed with the fishbowl-sounding, mono-compatible "HAECO-CSG" affect the vinyl counterpart is.
DexterMiller 11th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass - Christmas Album (1968)	THIS is truly a RARELY SEEN tape. I've only seen copies on Canadian Ebay when I was trying to find it on reel to complete my TJB collection; but shipping was ridiculous on-top of the $47 price tag.
DexterMiller 11th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass - S.R.O. (1968)	The non-Ampex A&M back catalog are reissues dating from late-1968 thru 1972. They are distinguished by the border across the top of their cover art denoting tape speed and i.d. number. All of them were "remastered" at 7 1/2ips (no 3 3/4 copies like Ampex wavered on; depending on sales popularity), by first Magtec duplication (black reels) and later by Soundcraft (grey reels), and are some of the BEST SOUNDING pre-recorded tapes ever made.
DexterMiller 11th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel The Beatles - Beatles '65 / The Early Beatles (1965)	It's infamous as the most blatant example of Capitol's fake stereo...but, boy: SHE'S A WOMAN makes this album worth the price of admission for a trip back in time! https://vimeo.com/338334672
DexterMiller 10th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel The Beatles - Beatles VI (1965)	This was the only reel to reel issue of the SOMETHING NEW Capitol album (it was never included among Ampex's 1969-1971 rereleases).
DexterMiller 18th Apr 2019		Reel-to-Reel Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass - S.R.O. (1966)	This was the only format of this TJB album where the first track, Our Day Will Come, does not have the overloaded distortion so many other releases (and even the 2016 Herb Alpert Presents reissue has!) are beset with.
DexterMiller 18th Apr 2019		Reel-to-Reel Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass - What Now My Love (1966)	This, the first-run Ampex issue, has the significantly different "dry"/non-reverb mix...unlike the 1968-later A&M OR-4114 re-release of the reel, which is echo-drenched much the way the source of the East Coast vinyl copies of the album were.