----- Original Message ----- From: "Farrar Hudkins" To: Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 12:08 PM Subject: Re: audities-digest V4 #428 (13 msgs) > Ken Kase wrote: >> Remember when you were young and had a prescribed amount of money to >> spend >> on blank tapes (which were not cheap) and you had to search your soul to >> decide on whether to by the normal bias or spring for the chromes?! > > This reminds me of a neat story from one of my co-workers here at the > radio station. We always used Type II tapes for our air-checks, and for > interviews paralleling the DAT, et cetera ... When our production > manager's son spent his allowance on some Type I cassettes for recording > interviews for a school project, she chastised him: ‘Haven't I taught you > better than this? Never bring a normal bias tape into this house!’ > I vividly recall splashing out for some fancy chrone tapes so that I could tape a friend's copy of Petty's "Pack Up The Plantation," live record from c. 85-86. I think Lloyd Cole's "Easy Pieces" LP was on the second side. I also recall thinking that the chrome tapes sounded miles above the regular bias Sony cassettes I'd been buying until then. But it was a rare expense. john micek (the guy who made the crack about the 45s)