VWestlife | 1972 Cassette Playback & Recording Hints and Tips @vwestlife | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 9 minutes ago
1972 Bib Hi-Fi Stereo Test Cassette from the UK: How to get the best stereo and mono reproduction and recording. Unfortunately they didn't follow their own advice about setting the recording level properly, so the sound is rather sibilant, although the Digital NR of my Pioneer T-D7 deck does an exceptional job of eradicating any trace of tape hiss, without muffling the sound.

Time flow:
0:27 Channel identification
1:29 Balance control
5:12 Speaker phasing
9:55 Spartacus
13:34 Individual instruments
15:49 Wow & flutter
16:52 Vivaldi's Four Seasons
18:33 H.M.S. Pinafore
23:00 Blue Danube Waltz
26:01 Recording from radio
28:46 Adjusting recording level
35:13 Cleaning tape heads
37:23 Eliminating hum
38:38 Cassette accessories
39:22 Recording from microphones
41:16 Symphonie Fantastique
44:28 Don Quixote
45:55 Rigoletto
49:03 1812 Overture

Includes narration by David Gell and Maroussia Frank and musical excerpts from a Jazz trio featuring Max Harris (piano), Jeff Clyne (bass), and Jack Cummings (drums and percussion).

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