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I still have my QBVII 8 track(Bought it at Woolworth's for a quarter!)... I always LOVED the way it sounded.
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what are the pros for such 8 track tape
can you for example leave out the horn section so you can't hear them ?
That's not how 8-track tapes work. It's just a normal stereo recording on a length of quarter-inch wide tape on an endless loop. On that tape is a total of 8-tracks of sound--divided into 4 stereo programs of two channels each--stacked on top of each other. When one of the four programs is completed (one go-around of the tape), a sensor triggers the the tape head to shift slightly to read the next set of two tracks, then the next, and the next. Then the programs start over again, continuously.
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Feb 4, 2016 - 6:15 AM
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jackfu
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It's just a normal stereo recording on a length of quarter-inch wide tape on an endless loop. On that tape is a total of 8-tracks of sound--divided into 4 stereo programs of two channels each--stacked on top of each other. When one of the four programs is completed (one go-around of the tape), a sensor triggers the the tape head to shift slightly to read the next set of two tracks, then the next, and the next. Then the programs start over again, continuously.
What wonderful ingenuity for such a clunky (literally) media. In the 70s if you went jogging along the road, you could hardly go 100 yards without finding a tape which had been thrown from a car in disgust (preceded by stream of well-placed expletives), usually with several feet of twisted tangled tape hanging from the plastic case; to say nothing of what could and often did happen inside the tape deck when it ate a tape.
I had several different decks over the years that ranged in price and performance from a $10 car parts store unit that ate quite a few tapes to a unit that cost over $200 and was excellent, which I still have, packrat (not hoarder, thank you) that I am.
Cassette tapes and decks made life so much better!
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I had a few... Williams' Dracula was first, and then some bargain buys - MacArthur, 1941, Eiger Sanction. I bought them for a year or so until I just couldn't take the split tracks, went back to vinyl til I got a good cassette player....
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I have "Citizen Kane: The Film Music Of Bernard Herrmann" which has a longer version of the suite from "Beneath The 12 Mile Reef".
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