EVENTS
LINKS
We usually have several events happening throughout the year:
British & Irish Sound Archives
BISA 2025: Sound Heritage Research & Innovation
Iain will be delivering a presentation on tape-based audio on the 15th May at the British and Irish Sound Archives BISA 2025: Sound Heritage Research & Innovation event.
https://www.bisa-web.org/bisa-2025-sound-heritage-research-innovation
Retrotech 2025
Reel Resilience will be at Retrotech 2025 in Coventry. We will have a range of reel-to-reel based items (parts to full machines) for sale: From FREE parts to PR99s that can be had for one-off show-special prices.
Recording To Tape Masterclass
Beckview Studios in Scarborough, will be hosting a Masterclass in recording to Analogue Tape on Saturday 5th July 2025. Utilising the studio's pristine condition MCI JH-24 24 track 2" tape machine, in house studio engineer Chris Jones, alongside BBC trained studio support engineer Iain Betson from Reel Resilience, will take you through the demystifying processes of using tape in a session during this all day event.
The days will focus on artistic considerations and operations. And will cover topics including:
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An overview of tape and the tape-recording process
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Selecting a tape type for your machine
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Setting the tape and the recorder up for a session
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Developing best practise skills during a session,
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Using the format to your artistic advantage
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Managing your own and client expectations.
There will be plenty of opportunity for hands-on experience, questions, and networking.
About the engineers:
Iain Betson honed his craft at Broadcasting House and Maida Vale and is widely considered one of the foremost authorities on reel-to-reel format in the UK. Iain will be joining Beckview Studios chief engineer Chris Jones. https://www.reelresilience.co.uk
Chris has a background in live sound recording and music technology education, before opening his destination recording studio in Scarborough in 2023.
Included in the ticket:
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Day session on location at Beckview Studios, 487 Scalby Road, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO13 0RA.
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Light Lunch, and refreshments provided
Spaces are limited with only a maximum of 10 places each day.
Book Now to avoid disappointment.
Exclusive discounts available to MPG (Music Producers Guild) Members. Enquire on Members area of MPG website https://mpg.org.uk/events-category/all-events/
Time & Location
05 Jul 2025, 10:00 – 18:00
Beckview Studios, 487 Scalby Rd, Scalby, Scarborough YO13 0RA, UK
Book Tickets via this link to the Beckview Studio website:
https://www.beckviewstudios.co.uk/event-details-registration/masterclass-recording-to-tape
Hi-Fi Show Attendance
We had a great response to our presentations at the two shows we attended in 2024 and thank everyone who visited us. Your questions both showed interest in the format and were insightful.
With an expanded offering of our show presence, we plan to attend futher shows in 2025.
We plan to attend:
Webinars
For over 4 years, Reel Resilience has run 90-minute webinars on a bi-monthly basis. We have decided to change the formnat of these, moving to a pre-recorded format for the interim with a re-vamp in 2025.
If you have Reel Resilience webinar membership the past webianrs, comprising over 30 hours of content are free and available to watch again. See below: "Viewing Past Webinars"
Viewing Past Webinars
1. All past and future webinars, plus the additional reel-to-reel video based content we create, will now be available on a yearly membership basis.
2. The price of future webinars will DROP BY 50% to £5 (about $7) plus booking fee.
3. You will be able to see these webinars once when attending.
4. As a member you will be able to attend future webinars for FREE and, of course, view them, and the other content as many times as you wish.
5. To become a member the yearly cost will be £52 (about $60), that is equal to, £1/$1 (ish) a week.
6. Currently there is over 20 hours of content from the past webinars and other videos and this will at least double in the 1st year of your membership.
A NON auto-renewing Membership is available via this link
Useful links to sites related tape-machines and audio:
Tapeheads Forum: A useful discussion and help resource for all tape formats.
Vintage Radio Forum: Similar to the Tapeheads forum but more "vintage kit" based, still a useful site.
Ferrograph World: Welcome to the World of Ferro!
Hi-Fi Engine: Technical manuals download site.
Hi-Fi Manuals: Technical manuals download site.
On-screen audio meters: A range of audio meter software for PPM and digital format meters.
PC based tone generator: Not free (you can trial it for free) but about the best we have currently found.
Peak to RMS Voltage Calculator: Useful when service manuals give a peak voltage figure rather than the RMS one shown on a DVM.
dBu, dBv & Voltage converter: Useful to convert the figures given in service manuals.
Time constant calculator: Ever wondered what 35us or 70us actually means as a frequency on a Eq curve? Use this app to work it out.
Recording studio glossary: All those initials and terms explained.
An interesting read in Jazz Times on the return of reel-to-reel.
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