8 track to CD

[tele-tubby]

Does anybody know who can convert this for me?  I've tried Tracks and other studios with analog stuff but they don't have anything to play this kind of tape.

Thanks!

[KitC]

Are you referring to those stereo 8-track players you find on jeeps or an 8-track casette like those Tascam portastudios? The Tascams are kinda rare beasts but I remember seeing Pioneer 8-track players in Dau, Pampanga some time ago.

[deltaslim]

Haha... blast from the past! 

Dami pa nga 8-track sa Pampanga. Also sa mga mini-bus biyaheng Naic.  In all cases, either slow rock or stars on 45 ang tugtog dyan.  I wonder which music tele-tubby is trying to transfer.

[xjepoyx]

yung karaoke namin na purchased 1987 ay nasa haus pa rin ng mga tita ko for display at may 8 track yun hehehe

[tele-tubby]

8 track yung half-inch tape diba?

[KitC]

Strangely enough, 8-track is 1/4", from here. I didn't know it was invented by the same guy who made the Lear Jet (well, I do now...  ).

[mikep]

8 track on 1" are pro tapes.  Ampex, Scully, Studer and others used to do reel tape machines like that.  Cinema Audio would have those machines.  So does Greenhill Studio.  Mareco (Villar) also.  But all are closed.  We never went into 1" 8 track.

Don't know of any other who has them. 

FWIW

[BALDO]

Ehem.. Tascam also made an 8 track - multitrack machine which is in a  cassette format at meron din silang 8 track na 1/2 inch reel to reel na ginawa.. alin ba dito ang machine mo..o yung 8 track na pang jeep? 

[mikep]

TASCAM's 8 track reel tape is 1/2" (80-8 model).  The cassette tape multi-track is called L-Cassette which was not successful at all.  The 8 track looped tape is the one popular among jeepneys and buses.  Those are consumer playback systems.  The pro ones are 1" (that's why the better sounding 16 trackers are the 2" ones).   

Wait a minute, he said his 8 track tape is 1/2", so could be the TASCAM 80-8 format.  I used to have this machine but was bought by some Guamenian long time ago.  I dunno of anybody whose got it presently.  Maybe some old radio studios?  Veritas, perhaps? Or that studio of Father Reuter?

FWIW

[KitC]

Tascam also had an 8 track cassette portastudio which used consumer format cassettes. Had to use metal oxide casettes with those 8-tracks. The heads on that machine were amazing and the tolerances were tight; 4-track was easier to manufacture as well as cheaper to sell. The emergence of the 8-track minidisc and hard disk recording killed off the format. And lets not go back to bouncing on those beasts...

[BALDO]

Tascam also had an 8 track cassette portastudio which used consumer format cassettes. Had to use metal oxide casettes with those 8-tracks. The heads on that machine were amazing and the tolerances were tight; 4-track was easier to manufacture as well as cheaper to sell. The emergence of the 8-track minidisc and hard disk recording killed off the format. And lets not go back to bouncing on those beasts...

KIT i actually had that  Tascam 8 track cassette which used Ferric oxide tapes.. nice machine to start with.. small mixer onboard with SMPTE generator and midi recording... an indie artist actually made a record out of this machine.! NO BOUNCING of tracks.. just several synths MIDIed together.