Posted: 24 February 2006 at 1:40pm | IP Logged

Hey Rapman, thanks for the offer but I replaced my dropped bass cab (Peavey Black widow with a hanging off magnet) with a Peavey 4 x 10 350 watt thunder box and my Carlsbro guitar combo with a new Vox combo. If I had known I could have had a custom Bass cab I would have jumped at the chance. Maybe some of our other forumites may be interested though, reawaken the Epi I say.

By the way I have put some new songs on my Christian Bands site if anyone is still reading this!

Posted: 24 February 2006 at 8:21pm | IP Logged

Back to topic, hidden away I should have 

A not particularly good recording of RGTC, and some of the songs done on the Peter Powell  show. (I once shook PP's hand at a show I went to see recorded in Norwich for the BBC. Thompson Twins and Frankie Goes to Hollywood were the star bands miming including FGTH miming an encore after they had finished recording the show) 

I also have a tape of the Press Any Key Radio one session

Posted: 25 February 2006 at 9:31am | IP Logged

Radio 1 in concert 79 & 81

Live from TV show "live aus dem Alabamain" Munich 1982 lifted from VHS tape courtesy of Didi in Germany

Lost other archives due to a tape chewing deck....!

I ended up wraping it up in silver foil and thowing it away.....

Posted: 21 May 2006 at 1:35pm | IP Logged

Hi Chaps, just catching up with this thread. I won't list my archives, it would scare you, but the initial post is sensational. And I can tell you now, very very historically important. One thing I can say, is that I never play back an old tape for archiving in it's original shell, I carefully remove the spool and put it into a brand new cassette shell. I also use tweezers to tweak the sponge so it really pushes the tape down onto the head for max high-end. I know this sounds dodgy, but it all works. Nothing worse then a loose sponge I find. It does sometimes mean physically breaking into old shells that are glued together, rather than screwed down. But the results are excellent. I then master a digital copy of the tape unedited for future use, on mini-disc in earlier times (we copied PB's reel's to MD originally), now straight to hard-disk, then lossless WAV's.

jules

Posted: 27 July 2006 at 12:07pm | IP Logged

I hope to transfer some old tapes to digital shortly (not ATF I'm afraid). Is there any specific new tape that people would recommend for a shell for the reels from an old cassette?

Dave