New Tape Company

[TapeOpLarry]

Got this press release this morning:

Dear Larry,

Activities?bringing analog studio tape into production as carried out by RMG International in Oosterhout, The Netherlands, are now in a status to be?disclosed. These efforts - bringing the EMTEC tape types back again to production and to the marketplace - are leading to a clear alternative and a redundancy in tape supply.

I think, this is good informatuion for the studio community.


Please take?details from the enclosed press information. This information is for immediate publication.

In case you need more information, please don't hesitate to come back.

With best regards??


Gerd?Cyrener

Consultant?RMG?International?B.V.
Former?head?of?EMTEC?
Marketing,?sales?(worldwide)?and?applications?engineering?studio?products
___________________________________________________________________________________________

Gerd?Cyrener,?Dipl.-Ing.
Tannhaeuserring?180
68199?Mannheim
Germany
phone:?+49-(0)621-81?91?742
fax:?+49-(0)621-81?09?93?30
e-mail:?mailto:gerd.cyrener@t-online.de
mobile?phone:?+49-(0)176-21?10?06?43
__________________________________________


EMTEC-Quality AUDIO TAPE
NOW AVAILABLE !!!

RMG International announces the availability of EMTEC-Quality audio pancake tape

EMTEC type Max. playing time in CC
FERRO PLUS C-60 & C-100 (C-130, C-180)
FERRO C-60 & C-110
FLX C-60 & C-115
Sample quantities will be available at the end of February/beginning of March 2005.
Production quantities is scheduled for April 2005.


EMTEC-Quality audio studio tape

EMTEC type Quantegy equivalent type
SM 911 456 Grand Master
LPR 35 457
SM 900 499 - Grand Master Gold Studio
GP 9 - Grand Master Platinum Studio
SM 468 478
PER 368 -
PER 528 -
PM97x series 6xx series
VM 95x series 70x, 8206 series
ADAT Master
formatted & blank ADAT audio
DTRS Master
formatted & blank DA 8
Samples will be available in May 2005.
Continuous supply starts in June 2005.


Recordable Media Group International B.V., Oosterhout, The Netherlands
has been accumulating 37 years of non-interrupted experience on magnetic tape manufacturing. With their highly skilled and experienced personnel and management, RMG International is fully dedicated to magnetic tape. A slim organisational structure enables low overhead.
When EMTEC closed down, RMG International acquired the EMTEC production and quality assurance equipment necessary to convert & complete the Oosterhout production lines to the EMTEC standards for audio tape production.

RMG International has the EMTEC
? production know how
? formulations and
? patents.

Former EMTEC key personnel is assisting in Oosterhout in order to maintain the EMTEC standards.
Following the installation of the EMTEC equipment and positive results of comprehensive studies on availability of the necessary raw materials, RMG International started prototype coating for audio pancake tape and is now preparing for studio tape.

RMG International, brief History
1968 Magnetic tape production for open reel and cassette tape started in
RMG International Oosterhout plant when it was a Philips division.
1981 Joint Venture Philips-Dupont, PD Magnetics B.V., on magnetic tape production,
brand name PDM. ?? Video tape for Video 2000 and VHS, 3480/90 data cartridges for
IBM tape storage systems.
1991 Installation of state of the art, new plant.
1993 SK, Germany, takes over the Oosterhout plant and renames into MPO B.V.
(Magnetic Products Oosterhout B.V.).
1998 New, state of the art, coating line goes into operation.
2004 April, renamed to Recordable Media Group International B.V..
2004 November, acquisition of assets and know how for the production of audio pancakes
for duplication and blank loading and for audio studio tape from EMTEC Munich plant.


Oosterhout, 4th February, 2005
Recordable Media Group International B.V.

Recordable Media Group International B.V.
Address: Bredaseweg 108,
4902 NS Oosterhout
The Netherlands
P.O. Box: 137, 4900 AC Oosterhout, The Netherlands
Phone: + 31 ? 162 ? 40 89 50
Fax: + 31 ? 162 ? 46 26 11
Website: www.rmgi.nl
Email: info@rmgi.nl

[jpmorris]

But.. if they are reissuing EMTEC.. what's ATR got?

[Cellotron]

But.. if they are reissuing EMTEC.. what's ATR got?

Their own formulation.

ATR just launched a new website for info on their upcoming tape line -
http://www.atrmagnetics.com

Best regards,
Steve Berson

[jpmorris]

> Their own formulation.

Well, yes.. that is the obvious answer. I'd managed to convince myself they were going to use the EMTEC formulations though.

Looking at the product listing, I notice that they don't seem to have a 467 equivalent, which rather sucks if you're running a DASH system. (Not that I do)

[nick_a]

where are we going to be able to get this new emtec tape?

[nestle]

> Their own formulation.

Well, yes.. that is the obvious answer. I'd managed to convince myself they were going to use the EMTEC formulations though.

Looking at the product listing, I notice that they don't seem to have a 467 equivalent, which rather sucks if you're running a DASH system. (Not that I do)

who the hell have you heard of that running a DASH system around here? that would be pretty hardcore digital vintage. I saw a sony DASH 2 track machine go for $90 on ebay recently

[jpmorris]

who the hell have you heard of that running a DASH system around here?

http://www.ltsstudio.fsbusiness.co.uk/
I tell a lie.. it's a ProDigi. They're going to be even less happy about this mess than Rockfield (who are all-analogue).

Anybody want a Sony?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 3872357395

[underthebigtree]

Happy days are here again...

[nacho459]

Looking at the product listing, I notice that they don't seem to have a 467 equivalent, which rather sucks if you're running a DASH system. (Not that I do)

Does anyone still use DASH? I thought DTRS kinda killed DASH, and sometimes I feel like the only person in the world that still uses DTRS.

If you can get DASH machines for $90 I should start buying them and turning them into furniture like dressers and end tables.

[nacho459]

OK, so to my real post.

By summer we will have 3 companies making tape? Wow! that is great, I hope. I think if you had a small enough overhead, and companies made different enough formulas that they aren't stepping all over each other they can all make a profit.

I know Mike has got love for the tape, and it seems like the new Quantegy guy wants to reinvent Q and make them a healthy progressive company, while holding onto their Ampex heritage. But I wonder if this new company is just trying to jump in the vacancy left on Jan 3rd when Quantegy closed and make a quick buck.

Mag Tape is no longer a big commodity in the recording biz, I think the only companies that are gonna be able to survive are small operations like ATR who are making tape because they love tape, and want to keep it alive, and companies like Q who are gonna be able to have other sources of great profit that change and adapt with the market.

If you think about it this is the way most companies in the music biz survive. There are the mega corporations who survive off volume, and then there are the small companies/studios/engineers that survive because they just love music and can't do anything else.

[Judas Jetski]

This is SO cool.

[Girl Toes]

and this from USRecording Media:

UPDATE Feb 9, 2005: The tape is rolling in and we're painfully and slowly starting to fill our shelves. (We even have 1/4" GP9 and 457 on reels now.) Quantegy has re-instated full audio production again. Also, there definitely will be a new studio quality open reel audio tape manufacturer in Pennsylvania starting in May or early June and maybe even as early as April. They're going to be making very good tape for almost everyone from the studio through broadcast, government, and even the home recordist. We feel everything from the new tape boxes through the sound and slitting of the tape is going to have a "classic" touch to it.

And to restate two questions already asked..

Who is carrying EMTEC???

How are 3 companies sustainable right now????

[nacho459]

bump

[bigtoe]

"Sample quantities will be available at the end of February/beginning of March 2005.
Production quantities is scheduled for April 2005."

All this tape...whoo hooo hooo hooo hooo! still going ATR but want high output stuff!

US recording media raised their prices when it stoped production. kinda shady.

Mike

[aurelialuz]

But I wonder if this new company is just trying to jump in the vacancy left on Jan 3rd when Quantegy closed and make a quick buck.

i'm not saying you're wrong, it remains to be seen, but from here it seems like they're really more stepping in for emtec.

it's nice to have options, that's for sure.