Press Play > Dedicated to All Things Reel-to-Reel
Dedicated to all things tape and tape-recorders, Press Play > is the podcast from Reel Resilience - The Open-Reel Experience Specialists. Each episode features an interview with a collector, professional-user or industry influencer, plus news and tips on the theory of tape recording or machine ownership.
Episodes
27 episodes
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 27: Why Gen X Are Loving Tape
Reece Beard is a final-year student at Salford University in the UK. I thought he would make a great interview as to why GenX, Millenials and Gen Zeds are going back to the analogue tape format.You can also hear why it's good that...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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29:41
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 26: In Conversation With Dan Labrie of Myriad Magnetic - Part 2
In part 2 of this two-part podcast we talk to Dan Labrie owner of Myriad Magnetic.Dan has been involved in professional analogue recording technology since 2010. He began his career replacing switches and capacitors on an Amek cons...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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22:21
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 25: Iain Is Interviewed on Local Radio
I have been meaning to do this for a long time, a bit more about me and my experience, so you get an idea of the person behind all of this. I did an outline of my background in Episode 1 but there is nothing like being interviewed and ans...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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34:06
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 24: In Conversation With Dan Labrie of Myriad Magnetic - Part 1
In part 1 of this two-part podcast we talk to Dan Labrie owner of Myriad Magnetic.Dan has been involved in professional analogue recording technology since 2010. He began his career replacing switches and capacitors on an Amek cons...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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22:38
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 23: Who's Going To Fix These Machines? - Part 2
The resurgence of reel-to-reel, whilst great, has brought with it a few myths and misnomers and, shall we say, less than best practice in using them. In part 2 of this 3 part mini-series on supporting reel-to-reel, Iain Betson of Reel Resilienc...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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27:37
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 22: Who's Going To Fix These Machines? - Part 1
In the 1960s to 1980s, when tape recorders were in regular use, there were many people to fix them. Half a century down the line, the number who now do this has reduced for many reasons. So who's going to keep these recorders running for the ne...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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28:47
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 21: Talking About the PR99, A700 & The B67
Part 2 of my conversion with Rob Brinkworth. In Episode 20 we talked about Rob's collection of Revox A77 and B77 machines and we carried on talking about the other recorders in his collection too, so I thought it would be a shame not to hear it...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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28:43
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 20: The Revox A77 (and a bit about the B77 too)
It’s rare you can use the term game-changer in the world of reel-to-reel, In the genesis of the format developments came organically, with perhaps only the discovery of AC bias, to radically improve the recorded audio quality, being worth...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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43:31
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 19: Why MCI? Part 2
This episode is part 2 of our two-part look at (Sony) MCI tape machines - I am told, by those with minds immeasurably superior to mine, that there is no difference between those machines badged with the Sony or MCI logo. We t...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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23:46
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 18: Why MCI? Part 1
This episode, and the next one, of the Press Play > podcast is all about MCI tape recorders. I put the word out on the Facebook groups that I wanted to talk MCI tape machines and studio owners Thomas Yearsley and Graham Nystrom replied they ...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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20:56
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 17: A New Reel-to-Reel from Thorens
In this episode we introduce the fourth new reel-to-reel machine to arrive on the market. Thorens show their confidence in the resurgence of reel-to-reel by the launch of the TM1600 player. Gunter Kürten, CEO of Thorens, talks about why h...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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17:50
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 16: The Beatles on Tape
Andrew Morton runs the website Parlogram Auctions. A site specialising in the sale of rare and collectable Beatles memorabilia. An Englishman living in Austria, Andrew has an encyclopaedic knowledge of anything Beatles and has made a pers...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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24:35
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 15: Getting Into Reel-to-Reel
In conversation with Stuart Blacklock on buying an entry-level reel-to-reel machine. Stuart has been a guest on Press Play before, and it's with good reason we welcome him back. He is a man with a wealth of reel-to-reel experience and, as you’l...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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38:38
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 14: The Kostas Metaxas Interview - Part 2
Kostas Metaxas of Metaxas & Sins: This episode is part 2 of our two-part chat with Kostas Metaxas of Metaxas & Sins. We’ll hear about the TRX recorder, move onto discuss the new limited-edition product Papillon 15 and then about his bea...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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28:46
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 13: The Kostas Metaxas Interview - Part 1
Kostas Metaxas of Metaxas & Sins: Despite the resurgence of the tape format, few people, or companies, have created a new tape-recorder. Kostas has not just done this once, but twice. First with the TRX recorder, positioned as a replacement...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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23:34
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 12: Talking Heads - Part 2
Tape heads: It all stops with a head when the audio is recorded on to the tape and starts with it on replay. Fortunately magnetic heads for audio recording are still manufactured by at least three companies across the World. Press Play > tal...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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16:43
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 11: Talking Heads - Part 1
Tape heads: It all stops with a head when the audio is recorded on to the tape and starts with it on replay. Fortunately magnetic heads for audio recording are still manufactured by at least three companies across the World. Press Play > tal...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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33:57
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 10: Righteous Reels
This episode of Press Play> very much deals with the visual, which may seems strange considering open-reel is a sound format, but pretty much since the visual media started, tape machines have made an appearance. Asthetically they have just ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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27:06
Press Play - The Podcast From Reel Resilience - Ep 9: Talking MPU boards with Steve Fensome
It may seem crazy, but Steve Fensome took a working, and hard to find, Studer A810 MPU board and dismantled it. But it was all in the name of tape machine progress, because, as a result, he is now producing new MPU boards for the A810 and A812 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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33:36
Press Play - The Podcast From Reel Resilience - Ep 8: Rock, Blues, Classical & Polish Jazz on Tape
We welcome back past contributor Oleg Netchaev, of Open Reel-to-Reel (facebook.com/openreel2reel), to talk about the large range, and wide genre, of pre-recorded tapes he now distributes, and to the owner of one of those companies producing the...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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37:03
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 7: In Search of Tape at The Bristol Hi-Fi Show
The Bristol Hi-Fi show is one of the three big hi-fi shows in the UK each year. In spite of 30 years in the professional audio sector, this is Iain Betson's first visit to a consumer audio show. He went there in search of tape, be it open-reel ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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28:47
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 6: A Visit To Sound Mastering - Part 2
A Visit to Sound Mastering - Part 2. In this podcast I continue my chat with Nick Robbins, Senior Mastering Engineer at Sound Mastering and his colleague Graham Sharpe. We talk special Studers, Ampex, recording formats prior to tape and Bing Cr...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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22:13
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 5: A Visit To Sound Mastering - Part 1
A visit to Sound Mastering - Part 1: In this two-part podcast we are in conversation with Nick Robbins, senior mastering engineer at Sound Mastering, London. We discuss tape baking, when it needs doing and when not, mastering software and the t...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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36:41
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 4: This One Is About Tape
Open-reel or cassette, a tape recorder needs tape to work. Currently there are only two companies making new tape: ATR Magnetics in the US (www.atrtape.com) and Recording The Masters, or RTM, based in France (www.recordingthemasters.com). In th...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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25:05
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 3: Pre-recorded Tapes
In this episode our conversation is with Olog Netchaev, of Open Reel-to-Reel and UK distributor of STS Analog's range of pre-recorded quarter-inch tapes, about how the market for such tapes has naturally grown alongside the increase in interest...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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23:44