I see that this TOKI ADEYEFA - Keyboards In Space quad cassette is listed as having Dolby C encoding which was not introduced until 1980. Does anyone know what year this was cassette released?
What a bizarre coincidence! I see the word 'ambisonics' in the description which would indicate something not discrete? Somebody here will be brave enough to order it and then we'll learn what it actually is. (have yet to hear anything impressive with ambisonics origins)Its down on quadro-surrounds.de as soon to be re-released https://www.quadro-surround.de/english/analog_productions.html
What a bizarre coincidence! I see the word 'ambisonics' in the description which would indicate something not discrete? Somebody here will be brave enough to order it and then we'll learn what it actually is. (have yet to hear anything impressive with ambisonics origins)
Interesting, but I don't know about a quadraphonic cassette... maybe Ambisonic though, like you mentioned. Quadraphonic cassettes have been discussed before, and aside from apparently none being made
and no consumer level equipment (I think Technics made a genuine 4-channel cassette deck, but I can't my info now), there was discussion about the technical difficulties of channel bleed on such a narrow tape.
However, I have tripped across photos of Tony Mattola and the Quad Guitars on cassette (could conceivably have been from an matrix encoded master, but quite possibly just an issue of artwork on the cassette
packaging), Roberta Flack Killing Me Softly (couldn't be, as it was a discrete-only release), and a blank cassette from Audio Magnetics Corporation advertised as "QHFC-90" and "Quadrasonic".
Interesting, but I don't know about a quadraphonic cassette... maybe Ambisonic though, like you mentioned. Quadraphonic cassettes have been discussed before, and aside from apparently none being made
and no consumer level equipment (I think Technics made a genuine 4-channel cassette deck, but I can't my info now), there was discussion about the technical difficulties of channel bleed on such a narrow tape.
However, I have tripped across photos of Tony Mattola and the Quad Guitars on cassette (could conceivably have been from an matrix encoded master, but quite possibly just an issue of artwork on the cassette
packaging), Roberta Flack Killing Me Softly (couldn't be, as it was a discrete-only release), and a blank cassette from Audio Magnetics Corporation advertised as "QHFC-90" and "Quadrasonic".
I brought the 45 of the Quad guitars to try it was not QuadThe porta studio was introduced around '79 as I recall and by the mid 80's Dolby C was available on a 4-track cassette deck. Klause Honnmann (sp) was the one who alerted me about the quad cassttes being released in Germany.
Below is a photo of the Mattola cassette, I have not heard it so cannot atest to it's validity
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And if Quad could not be more confusing to the masses we have labeling that could mislead the novice
Here the Roberta Flack in 4 channel Stereo that is not quad
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QHFC-60
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Obviously, if they were discrete QUAD there would be NO side 2 on either cassette tape. Wonder whose bright idea it was to try to cram all that info on such a narrow band of tape traveling @ 1 7/8 ips without alien intervention?
This was an idependent label in Germany that utilized new technology to get discrete quad into the home. If you look at the time period multichannel digital did not exist, it was 10-15 years after 4 channel reel and 8-track and I welcomed utilizing a 4 track cassette as one more tool to record in surroundWonder whose bright idea it was to try to cram all that info on such a narrow band of tape traveling @ 1 7/8 ips without alien intervention?
I had to dig around about the 4-channel cassette deck I mentioned, but what I was remembering was the Tascam 134 and 234. I knew it was a company name known magnetic recording and playback...
While the two Tascams are indeed cassette format, the 234 runs at a faster speed than consumer cassettes, and the 134 may actually be able to run at two speeds (including consumer speed?); they may
both require a special cassette, or at least a particular variety.
There was a post in the past few months that brought the 234 to my attention.
And apparently Audio Magnetic Corporation wanted to cover all bases in the blank "quad cassette" market, with both 60 and 90 minutes offerings .
This is a different can o' worms, but I remember in the 80s when my brother, an amateur musician, got a Tascam four-channel cassette recorder for his home studio. (He may still have it, for all I know.) Does anyone know if there was a way to rig those for four-channel playback? And speaking of two-speed cassette players: who remembers the BIC T-1 and T-2, which could record at 3-3/4 ips as well as the standard 1-7/8? I think Teac may have had a model like that, too.
I think that Elcaset ..was the one to run at 3-3/4 ips Sony invented this system, didn't last very long on the market...
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I will have to make a note in the discography about the details of the tape as to eliminate any confusion in the future.. I never looked at the discography documenting a time period and ran will past '75 to the mid 80's, just 4 channel recordings or all things quad.My original comment about the Dolby C was based on the Anderson Quad listing being a vintage quad (1972-1975) release. Now I’m thinking this was a 1980s project aimed at Portastudio decks; which is it?
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