I have just gotten my hands on my first quad reel-to-reel. It is Artur Rubenstein's recording of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 (RCA ERQ1-0031-QF). I don't have a reel-to-reel player that is specifically for quad, but I do have a Tascam 34 4-track reel-to-reel recorder/player. What I find confusing is that it seems that tracks 1 and 3 are primarily direct sound and tracks 2 and 4 are hall ambience. I would have guessed that tracks 1 and 2 were front left and right, but perhaps that is not correct. Should tracks 1 and 3 correspond to front left and right on a quad reel-to-reel tape?
J. D.
J. D.