ABOUT US

WHO ARE WE AND WHAT DO WE DO?

Vintage multi-track tape recorder in a studio setting. Grey and brown control panel, red wall.
Vintage Studer reel-to-reel tape recorder. Silver metal and wood casing with tape reels and control knobs.

About Reel Resilience

Reel Resilience is part of AV Resilience and draws on the owner, Iain Betson's 35+ years in the professional audio/video and broadcast industries. He is now considered to be one of the foremost authorities on the reel-to-reel format in the UK.

Trained by the BBC as a studio support engineer at Broadcasting House in London, Iain worked in the studios at BH, at the world-famous Maida Vale studios, the Corporation's Radio "Outside Broadcast" department and latterly in their chain of local radio stations.


In that time he worked on a wide range of Studer/Revox recorders, from the PR99 to A800 24 track machines, as well as models from Telefunken (M15A), Uher (4000 Report series), Lyrec (Fred and Frida), Sony (PCM 3324), Mitsubishi (X-86) and Nagra (IV and V).


With the renewed interest in open-reel machines he has expanded this experience to other Studer machines (A820, A827), models from Otari (MTR 90 and MX-50), Tandberg, MCI, Tascam & Teac .


​Reel Resilience, the Reel-to-Reel Experience Specialist, offers sales, service and repair of analogue open-reel tape recorders and cassette decks plus the sale of accessories and RTM tape. In addition, we offer a service we consider unique: Online & classroom based training for owners who wish to both learn about the format and keep their machines up to spec.

Visit our store here

No website dedicated to keeping these "tape time-machines" running would be complete without an overview of magnetic recording.


Rather than try and re-invent the "reel" here are some links to sites that, from my professional judgement, explain the principle well:


Reverb.com - a professional audio equipment auction site. 


Wikipedia - were would we be without a Wiki page! 


How Stuff Works - stuff like tape recording.


Hyper Physics - this article is a bit more scientific but still has simple diagrams.

Magnetic Recording

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“Hi Iain, just a note to say thank you for servicing my tape machine.   I've been recording tapes that sound absolutely fantastic.”


Darren H – Akai 1721L owner