Maybe used for the tape master ... When i did work experience, duplicating tapes, a tape was run from one end to the other with both sides copied at once. One being recorded backwards. Maybe for some strange reason it is run from a tape master so as not to go beyond the analogue boundaries which tapes have due to the natural compression. ? Sent from Samsung Mobile Orbstreperous Fritz <orb@ocara.org> wrote: My first master was on beta... On 3 May 2013 10:16, Antti Lavio <antti.lavio@possu.org> wrote: On 3.5.2013 11:59, Nick King wrote: Betamax was still being used for broadcasting well into the 90's. It's still weird to see it as a master tape. However, "Betamax also had a significant part to play in the music recording industry, when Sony introduced its PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) digital recording system as an encoding box/PCM adaptor that connected to a Betamax recorder. The Sony PCM-F1 adaptor was sold with a companion Betamax VCR SL-2000 as a portable digital audio recording system. Many recording engineers used this system in the 1980s and 1990s to make their first digital master recordings." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax) So it might be real, but still bit odd as KLF used lot of DATs. Maybe it was requirement from cassette manufacturer. Well, at least you can maybe count intended tracks for A/B-sides from those times :) -- anttil _______________________________________________ KLF mailing list KLF@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klf Report list abuse to list-abuse at studio-nibble.com