So...what's the newest on Tape Manufacturing?

thereminman · Post by **thereminman** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:10 am

I didn't see this brought up yet here in the Gear forum.
Any news on who's making tape?
What kind? Where?
Any good news for us users of 1/2" 456?????????

Thanks for any info!

JohnDavisNYC · Post by **JohnDavisNYC** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:25 am

ummm....... http://www.quantegy.com/

tape has been easy for me to find. nice fresh tape. yum.

john

evan · Post by **evan** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:48 am

I heard rumors that Quantegy was going under <i>again</i> -- a local store said that the supply was once again limited -- although I couldn't confirm this anywhere. Weird how that kind of stuff gets started.

thereminman · Post by **thereminman** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:58 am

yikes...such an obvious solution going to quantegy.com!
duh. sorry.
I guess I didn't even think they were in the game anymore and that someone else would be taking their niche'.
If I can keep getting the 456 from QUantegy..well, that's a good thing.
Thanks for the info and patience.

joel hamilton · Post by **joel hamilton** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:10 pm

evan wrote:I heard rumors that Quantegy was going under <i>again</i> -- a local store said that the supply was once again limited -- although I couldn't confirm this anywhere. Weird how that kind of stuff gets started.

Did they then tell you that a reel of 1/2" 499 was 3 million dollars?

ATR seems to still be on the way to making tape. They were showing empty take up reels at AES.....

Judas Jetski · Post by **Judas Jetski** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 2:58 pm

Oh I am so dying to get ahold of a reel of the new ATR stuff. I don't even know what I am going to do with it yet. I mean, I know I'm going to make music on it. I just haven't figured out what and how. And I'm not sure I care.

jpmorris · Post by **jpmorris** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 4:05 pm

Know this: at AES Mike Rivers found FOUR manufacturers exhibiting. Here is his report:

http://mysite.verizon.net/mikerivers/Up ... ct2005.PDF

Judas Jetski · Post by **Judas Jetski** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:43 pm

Mmmmm.... tape.....

tactics · Post by **tactics** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:56 pm

ATR Magnetics looks promising:

http://www.nothingsoundsliketape.com/

sonicmook56 · Post by **sonicmook56** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:47 pm

Just before Quantigy closed last year, we got 3 cases of tape (from diffrent batches) that WOULD NOT bias-up correctly. High end was all over the place, low end sounded like sand paper. You could see "birds eyes" all over the tape. When the suppler would not tape the crappy tape back, I went to Quantagy with frequency/level sweeps from an audio precision, the reply...."its normal to have 3dB of error"

The new production of quantigy (GP9 on the silver reels, 456) seems to be as great as the old stuff. Ive never had a problem since, however, Im stoked to get some new tape formulas!

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