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numberthirty wrote:n.c. wrote:Justin Foley wrote:A quick shout out for ATR Magnetics tape. ATR Specialty TapesI've used this stuff and it does the job. I like to buy as much as possible from them to throw support to what they're doing.= Justinoh, awesome. i thought i'd gotten it from atr before. i was looking under 'accessories'. i only run use atr tape (and the occasional 20 year old reel of shedding, gunky 456).Tape/Computer joking aside, have you thought about getting whatever is on that tape backed up to digital files?really pokin' a turd there, voivod. when i bought my tape machine, it came with like 20 reels of used tape. mostly 456. it probably wasn't worth the extra shipping costs, but this was in the days where the future of tape was uncertain. there isn't that much stuff of note on those reels, and they should be baked before being played/transferred. but, there are a few cool things on some of them - tv on the radio did a yeah yeah yeahs cover that wound up on the b-side of a 7", cocorosie did a version of a song that wound up on a european cd single release. that stuff should probably be backed up, but theres also unfinished stuff that i know the artists wouldn't want to see the light of day. so i might really like to have a version of the young peoples' doors cover, but it's unfinished and didn't go the way the band was hoping, and i would never want to risk that winding up on the internet.at any rate, the music is safe where it's at, barring fire, and until someone wants to pay me to do all the work it would take, i'm not going to take it upon myself.almost everything i've done since atr started making tape is on atr reels, easily accessible.