S O'Neill wrote:

For the OP, in case anyone didn't already know:

Side 1 L ---
Side 2 R ---
Side 1 R ---
Side 2 L ---

This reminded me of an experience as a poor student in the late 70's
when I would feed my stereo 71/2 ips quartertrack with scrap tape
which a friend of a friend smuggled out of the EMI studios in London:
during playback of quiet passages in one my recordings I could just
discern a low level version of the theme from Dvorak's New World
Symphony - played backwards at half speed. I kid you not. All very
logical when you think through the track speed-, width-, geometry- and
erasure issues. Actually, I was gobsmacked how easily recognizable
that phantom recording was...those 'ol hot-shot composers knew how to
pen a good tune g.

Tom McCreadie
(please remove "spamjam." for my real address)