Plush

Greetings Sir.

Just a quick question in relation to the thread on converters (top five of high, med, low).

I see you put the SADiE slither in the top bracket.

I did record an opera last year with some but it was far from ideal conditions and the MD wanted the recording scrapped. A couple of days ago, however, I borrowed a mic/line card for my LRX2 and spent a little longer having a better listen to what was coming in. Admittedly I was using the inbuilt pres, which didn't always light my fire previously, but this card seemed pretty good.

Any comments you can add good sir?

Other than that, I trust you are well and happy.

Cheers,

Haig

Hello plush,
My name is Guillermo Piccolini. I live in Madrid and starting to use tape again, but this time in a more professional way (I hope!!!). I have a Telefunken M15 with 1/4 butterfly heads which runs @15ips. I intent to use it to record my analog mixes (digital recording). It has came back to life recently and the tape has not arrived yet. I tried with old basf 911 (used) and it sounds incredible. But I´m curious if I should go with 900... and some people told me to go with PER528..(!!!) . As You´re the author of the (IMHO) most interesting posts I´ve found in the web about tape, I decided to ask you if there´s something really better with 900 other than the extra 3db. Some people say that they prefer 911 because 900 distorts in highs if you push it and if you don´t push it you loose the extra 3db... So I decided to try to take a minute from you with this question; here in madrid tape seems a lost science... I have to learn everything myself. (I´m also curious about your recording speed, but that´s a lot more advanced.)
Thanks for your time.
Guillermo