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The difference between a “Good” tape and a GREAT tape!
Last Updated: 03/05/2010
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Don’t lose performance!
Using the wrong tape is like putting cheap gas in a race car—you’re robbing yourself of performance. Then again, would you use that race car to drive to the grocery store?
Above all, avoid the cheapest tapes available. Cheap tapes shed their oxide easily, leaving a damaging residue (along with some of your message!) on the record heads in your equipment. They are also built to lower quality standards, and sometimes get “jammed” (wound so tight their hubs won’t turn) or “eaten” by your listeners’ inexpensive players.
Poor quality tape — no matter how low the price — actually costs you or your listeners in the long run!
Avoid listener fatigue!
Inferior tapes can cause plenty of other problems. Have you ever listened to a cassette tape and had difficulty concentrating? You may have been suffering from “listener fatigue.”
Poor-quality tape may record a background hiss or even have electronic “clutter” already on it that may not be consciously heard. But that virtually imperceptible noise is constantly sorted out by your unconscious mind so that you only hear the words. This happens until your mind gets tired and starts to drift.
Your listeners may not quite catch all the message even though they are trying to hear and remember all of it. That’s why you need a high quality copy tape. It’s not “just a voice recording”—it’s God’s word to your hearers!
That’s why you need to avoid cheap tapes. What good is a tape that saves you a few cents but causes several listeners to miss important parts of your message?
"What are my choices?”
You have normal bias and high bias.
Chrome and metal tapes are high bias and designed for critical master recordings and some commercial music cassettes.
While they are capable of carrying a stronger (“hotter”) signal, they have a big drawback for cassette ministry. Both the duplicators and players they are used in must be capable of the higher “bias.”
Most high-speed duplicators are not designed for this, and using a high-bias tape can wear out the record heads much more quickly.
Normal-bias tape (also called Type I) accounts for the vast majority of cassettes used today. They are the most universally played tapes in consumer home, car, and portable tape decks. Of course normal-bias tapes are available in an extreme range of quality, from those “economy” cassettes which sometimes are errantly called “low noise,” to new, exacting formulations created under strict quality control.
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