Playing an 8 track tape on a reel to reel machine

[FatherKunt]

cool i find old things like this interesting peoples junk is my treasure lolz

[MichaelHansenFUN]

that pirate tape is worth money!!! you could have it repaired by mail order like I do

[bulchit48]

@MichaelHansenFUN yeah? how much is it worth? enough to pay for it's repair?

[MichaelHansenFUN]

@bulchit48 i dont know but you should check out the webpage 8 TRACK HEAVEN...

[mazew5]

Nice tags, lol.



[bulchit48]

@mazew5 what do you mean?

[bulchit48]

@bulchit48 oh those tags lol

[mazew5]

@bulchit48 I clicked on show more and I looked at the tags for the video.

[LeperMessiah95]

I agree, after a while they do suck. Just stick with cassette.

[newfuckingwave]

so i'm not the only sick fuck with these ideas haha

[bulchit48]

@newfuckingwave guess ill start a new channle "sick fucks of tech @ youtube.com " lol

[MichaelHansenFUN]

2 things at once

[JohnFordDanceTroupe]

Negativland presents Janis Joplin in 8 minutes.

[TheDeadEnemy]

I love reel-to-reels. Such a hard find nowadays...

[Walters78s]

Ive done it.....and im gunna do it again..... BIG MAN LOL

[DerekBayRoberts1]

I wouldve been cool to see you take it out of the cartridge. I hope you have a CD of "Pearl" or at least another copy.

[bulchit48]

@DerekBayRoberts1 better than an 8 track i have a Reel tape from Columbia records :)

[bulchit48]

well if it was from Columbia records it might have been worth saving but it was a pirate tape.

[cptnpycho]

why throw it away? why not just respool it on the 8 track? i'm not a big janis fan but i know that tape is going for $30-$50 on ebay cause its so rare. like a lot or music that era on 8 track.

[cptnpycho]

why throw it away? why not just respool it on the 8 track? i'm not a big janis fan but i know that tape is going for $30-$50 on ebay cause its so rare. like a lot or music that era on 8 track.

[cptnpycho]

why throw it away? why not just respool it on the 8 track? i'm not a big janis fan but i know that tape is going for $30-$50 on ebay cause its so rare. like a lot or music that era on 8 track.

[MegaWayneD]

Brilliant! I had an 8 track player in my old 1972 VW Bug (in 1997) and it worked very well apart from the only tape I had was The Osmonds! And yet the 9 year old CD changer in my current car is really starting to break down.

[audiotrax2000]

Cool experiment. Cool toys!

[pahlorstoker]

i think i have that same r to r in storeage. old r to rs were cool machines to play with. great sound! never did much with 8 tracks. was cassette generation. must confess don't miss tape or vinyl media. to fussy. digital much more user friendly. do miss cool album covers though!

[bulchit48]

@pahlorstoker I have all the digital stuff too but i like it all :)

[NESHero]

@pahlorstoker don't really care for tape, but i love vinyl. i can't live without vinyl.

[turnkit]

Are there other reel-to-reel machines with narrower tracks? This looks like a nice way to convert media. How does the 8-track quality compare to reel-to-reel quality?

[bulchit48]

@turnkit 8 tracks are generally poorer in quality than reel to reel although I made recordings directly onto 8 track and it sounds great. depends on the recorder. See my Lady Ga Ga on 8 track video

I erased over a 40 year old tape and it sounded amazing. Reel to reel would offer different speeds that helped sound quality as the 8 track only had on 3 3/4 ips.

[bronzeonion]

blimey pretty good quality on the 8track machine, i thought they would have been realy crappy

[bulchit48]

@bronzeonion yeah and it was a pirate tape too

[manyvideoinerests]

How cool! I'd think you'd get tracks running backwards! On my grandmother's Sears 8-track player was so mis alined with the head you could hear one program on one speaker and another program on another speaker. It ws hard to tall what program it was supposd to be playing!

[shstrang98]

If you can find an old Tascam 8 channel multitrack open reel unit you could play that 8 track tape. Think most of them operated at 15 ips rather than the 3.75ips of an 8track cart.

I did this one time too.

BTW if you're using 8 track carts, they should only be country. ;-)

[shstrang98]

If you can find an old Tascam 8 channel multitrack open reel unit you could play that 8 track tape. Think most of them operated at 15 ips rather than the 3.75ips of an 8track cart.

[MrAccordionPimp]

very interesting, I didnt realize it would be the same speed. WOW

[bulchit48]

@MrAccordionPimp i could have sped it up lol

[eyg2181]

oh yea definitly, cheap receiver & speakers + cheap 8 track player = Shit sound. i guess you can say im a fan of the format, the design is really neat if you think about it. try an akai GXR-82D 8 track player... itll sound like a cassette or LP

[eyg2181]

8 Tracks can sound excellent with a quality player. they have a bad rep because of how many cheapo machines there are.

[bulchit48]

True and depends on what you play them through also.

[DJKCDEE]

i never knew you could run 8 track to reel to reel.

[bulchit48]

yup just cant get just one song at a time to play

[patrickguice]

The major reason 8 track had bad sound quality was the heads. They where never in alignment with the tracks exactly. They constantly moved when you switched tracks. I am an open reel man and own 3 myself.

[bulchit48]

very true on the head alignment. I'm an Open reel man too I have 3 stereo ones and Just got a quadraphonic one :)

[themasterofmovies]

@bulchit48

teac a-3340s?

[bulchit48]

No an AKAI 250D

[themasterofmovies]

i meant is your quadraphonic one a teac a-3340s

[bulchit48]

202D-SS

[bulchit48]

Akai

[pvx]

Indeed, I have an dodgy old Soundesign stereo w/ 8-track, and I keep a small flatblade screwdriver handy around it to adjust the head azimuth whenever it needs it. Luckily, the stereo has a hole in the bottom of the chassis for accessing the azimuth screw...

I wonder if there ever was an 8-track deck made with a true 8-track head, so the track switching could be done electronically..

[CoolDudeClem]

You could use the 8 track tape wound onto the reel as spare tape. If you recorded onto it with a 2 track stereo r2r, and wound it back onto the 8 track spool you could have an 8-track tape where all 4 programs are the same! (because there would be only 1 recording on the tape)

[VideyoJunkei]

So, 8 tracks in the space of 4? That explains the generally lower quality of 8-track, the tracks are thinner!!

[bulchit48]

yes thinner than 4 track tape. but cassettes were even thinner 1/32 per channel all on a 1/8th piece of tape and trumped the 8 track in sound quality and durability even at a speed of 1/1,7/8 inches per second due to all the improvements made in tape quality which should have been applied to 8 track but they were hard to record on and playback unlike the cassette.

[Mastercorder]

If I remember right you could use the old eight tracks for blank recording tape and not waste them ..... !!!!

[bulchit48]

use them on a reel recorder or an 8 track recorder

[DangerousBastard]

Thats cool!

[pigpendino]

cool video, i've not seen that done before. cheers

[RODALCO2007]

Cool clip, It might work on a 4 channel R2R like a Akai ----DSS type which can play 4 tracks at once. Still an interesting project though.

[bulchit48]

Yeah it might and if you had a quad machine that could isolate each track with a button.

[hoedown41]

enjoyed it.  i have a nice collection of 8 track cartridges and 8 track players. It was great to see your demo since i was thinking of trying this out on the reel to reel i borrowed to move a hendrix soundtrack on rtr analog to digital. Thanks again for your super presentation.

[clydesight]

Fascinating! I used to fix busted 8-track cartridges, the tape requires amazing patience to work with (a C-120 cassette is worse though... tape is super thin). I see you have a TEAC 4010SL? I have one, it's just as loud when you push a transport button. My drive belt melted, but I got a replacement from a TEAC web site. Thanks for the video!

[bulchit48]

No Its an Akai 250D I have 2. I got a second one through Ebay thinking my first one died. then it started working again mysteriously lol. yeah cassettes are a bugger to fix. lots of them went into the garbage out of frustration and some I have had for over 30 years,who knows why lol glad you like the video.

[clydesight]

AKAI is good. It looked like a TEAC, similar arrangement of head cover and pinch rollers, and the machine sound when you start it seemed the same as my TEAC. I have some 40 year old cassettes (one is an original Norelco from the Carry-Corder 150 -- home made), that work perfectly. Had others, more modern, that didn't even work out of the box! I find most often, the head pads become unglued to the brass strip, or a foam head pad disintegrates, or the slip sheets dry out and stick.

[MrRom92]

ohhhh i see haha srry well thanks for uploading again, i thot it was a cool vid

[MrRom92]

did you copy this video from someone elses account?

ive seen this video on here before

[bulchit48]

no I was on her under an different name before I was deleted.