BASF SM 900

[Mike Caffrey]

Does anyone know where I can get 3 reels for BASF SM900 in NYC by Friday?
Tape tape doesn't have any listed on the site.

If you ahve ant reels you want to seel, new or used, call me at (917) 686-8492.



www.monsterisland.com

[John Noll]

Mike Caffrey wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can get 3 reels for BASF SM900 in NYC by Friday?
> Tape tape doesn't have any listed on the site.
>
> If you ahve ant reels you want to seel, new or used, call me at (917) 686-8492.
>
>
>
> www.monsterisland.com


Call NRS in Brooklyn 800-538-2336. Excellent service.
I get my orders from them next day with regular UPS ground.

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John Noll
Retromedia Sound Studios
Red Bank, NJ 07701

Phone: 732-842-3853 Fax: 732-842-5631

http://www.retromedia.net

[Scott Dorsey]

Mike Caffrey > wrote:
>
>Does anyone know where I can get 3 reels for BASF SM900 in NYC by Friday?
>Tape tape doesn't have any listed on the site.

Tape Warehouse probably has some in stock. What width?

>If you ahve ant reels you want to seel, new or used, call me at (917) 686-8492.

If you want 1" or 1/4", I might have some.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Mike Caffrey]

In article >, (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

> Mike Caffrey > wrote:
> >
> >Does anyone know where I can get 3 reels for BASF SM900 in NYC by Friday?
> >Tape tape doesn't have any listed on the site.
>
> Tape Warehouse probably has some in stock. What width?
>
> >If you ahve ant reels you want to seel, new or used, call me at (917)
686-8492.
>
> If you want 1" or 1/4", I might have some.
> --scott

I need two inch. NRS is out. I bought all but their last three reels in
June. I should have taken everything.



www.monsterisland.com

[Scott Dorsey]

Greg W. > wrote:
>> I got mine from Nashville Tape Supply or something like that. They told me
>> that the tape is still being made but the dirstribution channels have
>> totally been changed and a lot of supplier aren't on board with the new
>> distributors yet.
>
>It'd be nice if it (and 911) were still being made...but I've heard
>from a few people that EMTEC is all done. Whether someone else has
>bought their equipment and will resume production, I haven't heard...

Nobody has yet explained to me what has really happened... I just keep
hearing rumors on either side. EMTEC's German distribution division
went under, which is not a big deal. SOME of their tape production
facilities and holdings were sold, some weren't, nobody really seems to
know which.

In the meantime, the supply of 468 seems to be holding steady and I have
not seen any shortages.

I did just find a case of 2" 900 in the closet, though, that is only a
month or so old, and I'm not going to use it. I found it a little bit
too late for the original poster but I'll still gladly sell it if anyone
wants it. It's enough for a small project or two.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Scott Dorsey]

John Hardy > wrote:
>
>I was told that the tape is still being manufactured, and
>that there is a shipment arriving soon by boat. The long
>term situation with Emtec is not clear. I don't recall the
>details, but there is more than one plant in Germany,
>including Munich and other cities, that makes various types
>of Emtec tape. One or more of those locations may eventually
>be bought by some other company.

So, are we going to get all those goofy European types that Emtec didn't
want to import? Like the red-oxide broadcast tapes, or the tapes with
the white backcoating you can write on with a sharpie?
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Greg W.]

That vaugly sweet smell... Ahhhh....
> >
> > Sniffing tape,
>
> You are not alone. That 456 smell is a beautiful thing. One of the perks
> of using analog. 900 smells like Silly Putty.

Funny...I saw this topic discussed before, and I remember thinking
that EMTEC/BASF tape always smellled better! Well, to each their own.
But hey, everyone knows that a better-smelling tape is a
better-sounding tape...right?? :-)

Anyway, John Hardy, thanks for the link! I really really really hope
it turns out that I can get EMTEC again soon.

What I heard on the 'net and from my suppliers (Tape Services of NH)
is that EMTEC simply went bankrupt, then were to be liquidated, and
that the machines that make the stuff were being sold off. Everything
seemed to imply that that's all she wrote! But hey, if the machines
were bought for the purpose of continuing production...

-GRW

N.O.M.A.D. Travelling Recording Studio.
http://world.std.com/~grw
"Keep it off my wave" -Soundgarden
"America may not be perfect, but it's done fu***** all right by me."
-John Valby

[John Hardy]

Greg;

> Anyway, John Hardy, thanks for the link! I really really really hope
> it turns out that I can get EMTEC again soon.

I should be receiving a roll each of 1/4", 1/2", 1" and 2"
Emtec 900 (10.5" reels) today or tomorrow. I had to contact
two different dealers to get all of it. I won't mention who
they are until I actually receive the tape though! I looked
around on the Internet, probably doing a Google search for
"Emtec tape" or something, to find various dealers.

John

[Josh Snider]

in article , John Noll at wrote
on 9/16/03 01.18:

> Josh Snider wrote:
>
>> And am I alone in saying theres nothing quite like the smell of 456 when its
>> running in rewind or fast forward. That vaugly sweet smell... Ahhhh....
>>
>> Sniffing tape,
>>
>> J
>>
>>
>
> You are not alone. That 456 smell is a beautiful thing. One of the perks
> of using analog. 900 smells like Silly Putty.

Silly putty, wow, acctually I've found that some of the EMTEC tape smells
very metallic. Almost unpleasant. But I do have a reel of 3M 226 that
smells identical to 456. I wonder if this means the formulations are
similar?

I just ran downstairs to sniff my EMTEC tapes and by God they DO smell like
silly putty. Wow...

Do you think its possible to gauge formulations by how they smell?

J


--
josh.snider
cave.productions
416.524.6927

[Greg W.]

I looked
> around on the Internet, probably doing a Google search for
> "Emtec tape" or something, to find various dealers.

Yeah, that's what I did, and I think I bought up the last few reels of
1" and 1/2" 911 from one dealer.

I use 911 because my analog machines are what many would call "small
format." If I'd been born 20 years earlier, maybe by now I'd have a
pair of 2" 8-tracks and a 1" half-track...and some John Hardy pres!!
:-) Ah well, I'm very happy with my digital machines, as well as
Quantegy 456. There's just that little something extra that comes from
using both analog and EMTEC. (Not that I've done a whole lot, but
hey...) It's probably placebo effect more than anything else...

-GRW

[Scott Dorsey]

Greg W. > wrote:
>
>Yeah, that's what I did, and I think I bought up the last few reels of
>1" and 1/2" 911 from one dealer.
>
>I use 911 because my analog machines are what many would call "small
>format." If I'd been born 20 years earlier, maybe by now I'd have a
>pair of 2" 8-tracks and a 1" half-track...and some John Hardy pres!!
>:-) Ah well, I'm very happy with my digital machines, as well as
>Quantegy 456. There's just that little something extra that comes from
>using both analog and EMTEC. (Not that I've done a whole lot, but
>hey...) It's probably placebo effect more than anything else...

911 should be back soon.

But in the meantime, see if you can get 468. On a narrowtrack machine,
you might like it more than 911. It'll require rebiasing, but it's sure
a great-sounding tape. Cheaper than 911 too.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."