Silly question time
Why do people say that recording at 30 IPS is better than 7 1/2 or 15 IPS ?
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Silly question time
Why do people say that recording at 30 IPS is better than 7 1/2 or 15 IPS ?
Opinions please
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Very basic but it does explain the reason for faster tape speeds sounding better.
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OK so it's this
The faster the tape moves the better the recording because the information (lets say the music) is spread out over a longer piece of tape. Slow tape speed compresses the information into a small length and a poorer recording results. The recording head should be as close to the tape as possible so that the changing magnetic field can affect the iron oxide grains more easily.
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The shortest wavelength that can be recorded onto the tape is determined by the width of the head gap. Thus the highest recordable frequency is thus given by (recording speed)/(gap width), so the higher the recording speed the higher the frequency that can be recorded.
It's not quite as simple as that, but you get the idea.
Barry
Same reason 45rpm will sound better than 33 given a level playing field.
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The cutting stylus doesn't get as hot cutting the high frequencies because the high frequencies are halved.
The higher the frequency, the hotter the cutter stylus gets, and if there's too much high frequency information at too high an amplitude the cutting stylus will literally burn out.
Chris
Common sense isn't anymore!
I remember my VCR having a "long play" facility, where it could record and play back at half speed, so doubling the available length of programmes you could record. Picture quality wasn't as good though.
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Allen,
The multitrack 1970s/1980s session masters were usually on 2 inch tape at 30 IPS with 16 or 24 tracks. The original stereo mix down master was usually a 30 IPS 1/2 inch tape. Production or distribution tapes were copied form the 1/2 inch 2 track stereo master and sent out to record pressing plants. Most production masters were sent out on 1/4 inch tape as 15 IPS 2 track.
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