Dale H. Cook wrote:
On 30 Nov 2004 09:32:54 -0500, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
I have one word for you. A word that strikes fear in the hearts of First
Class holders everywhere.
Tapecaster.
Tapecasters were simple and relatively crude, but held their alignment
pretty well, whereas Audicords were prone to get out of alignment and
were badly underpowered. I'll take a Tapecaster over an Audicord any
day.
Alignment? I didn't know you aligned cart machines! I thought you just
shook the cartridge back and forth until the high end came back.
Okay, that was kind of sarcastic. But honestly, azimuth alignment on
a machine that can't keep azimuth is something of an adventure.
I have one client that still has one Tapecaster and one Spotmaster in
their MCR, for a one-hour live weekday show where the jock has a lot
of old music on carts. Another station would like to contract with me,
but until they get rid of the Audicords in their MCR I'm not
interested.
High end cart machines are such a glut on the market right now that you
might consider a contract in which you replace their whole cart arrays
for a nominal price upon taking over. Put an ad in Radio World asking for
cart machines and your phone will ring off the hook.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."