Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 13: The Kostas Metaxas Interview - Part 1
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Kostas Metaxas of Metaxas & Sins: Despite the resurgence of the tape format, few people, or companies, have created a new tape-recorder. Kostas has not just done this once, but twice. First with the TRX recorder, positioned as a replacement for Nagra and Stellavox field recorders, and later with the Papillion 15, a studio based, or high-end audiophile, product. In part 1 of this two-part podcast Kostas takes us through his early years in hi-end hi-fi and music recording, to the story of h...
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This is an audio version of a presentation I deliver at Hi-Fi shows and to interest groups. It covers: Application Reels sizes Track layout Tape speeds Reversable machines Eq New or used machines A transcription can be found as a blog on the Reel Resilience website. https://www.reelresilience.co.uk/post/press-play-episode-28-buying-a-reel-to-reel Support the show
Reece Beard is a final-year student at Salford University in the UK. I thought he would make a great interview as to why GenX, Millenials and Gen Zeds are going back to the analogue tape format. You can also hear why it's good that a machine doesn't record sometimes and how I trashed an MRL alignment tape. Support the show
In part 2 of this two-part podcast (see Ep 24 for Part 1) we continue our talk with Dan Labrie owner of Myriad Magnetic. Dan has been involved in professional analogue recording technology since 2010. He began his career replacing switches and capacitors on an Amek console at a recording studio in Detroit. As a result of working for analogue tape pioneer Mike Spitz, who owned ATR Services and the tape manufacturer ATR Magnetics, he has gained valuable experience in, not just...
I have been meaning to do this for a long time, a bit more about me and my experience, so you get an idea of the person behind all of this. I did an outline of my background in Episode 1 but there is nothing like being interviewed and answering those, sometimes tricky questions, that get you searching the depths of your memory to answer them. I was asked to appear on Darren Harte’s radio show on Harborough FM, to talk about the resurgence of tape. Darren is a client of Reel Resilience ...
In part 1 of this two-part podcast we talk to Dan Labrie owner of Myriad Magnetic. Dan has been involved in professional analogue recording technology since 2010. He began his career replacing switches and capacitors on an Amek console at a recording studio in Detroit. As a result of working for analogue tape pioneer Mike Spitz, who owned ATR Services and the tape manufacturer ATR Magnetics, he has gained valuable experience in, not just the machines, but also in the tape th...