I just fixed my tape echo's tape with Scotch Tape

[applejones]

Good, bad? Miracle?

[helmuth]

The tape ment for splicing magentic tape is just, you guessed it, tape. There's no magic. However, I would recomend the intended kind as things kan get really sticky and gooey in time and smear all over the heads.

[djimbe]

If it works, then good. Regular Scotch brand cellophane tape is thicker than real splicing tape, and probably not the best for splicing recording tape that is on a reel. You'd get a weird lump in the wind that might subtley mark other laps. In a tape delay though it can work fine. I've done it before in a pinch. Just make sure that there's no edges sticking up that can catch on the guides and break your splice. Also, make sure your splice tape isn't too long. You want that splice point to be as flexible as possible so the recording tape wraps the heads correctly...

[ciminosound]

Back in the day when cassette tapes broke that's how we fixed them.

[biasvoltage]

I have two tape loops for my Space Echo. One is nice and pristine, hte other is an old piece of Ampex 406 with multiple splices on it.

When I just want a good delay, I use the clean one.

When I want to F up a sound, I use the spliced up one. Every time one of the splices passes through the transport, the speed gets instable and there are dropouts...this sounds great on sterile string patches. It's unpredictable, not entirely musical, but perfect for certain situations.

And it's pretty much free, and easily reversible.