#OpenReel

@BjornW@mastodon.socialBjornW
2026-01-26

@toon Interessante tool, met enige reserveringen:

- Ben benieuwd hoe goed dit werkt op oudere machines. Browser tools lopen daarop meestal minder goed & video bewerken is een zware toepassing.

- De maker schrijft in de README op Github:

'OpenReel is an experiment in AI-assisted open source development.'

Ik zou het dus niet voor productie gebruiken & vooral als een leuk experiment beschouwen.

Zie: github.com/Augani/openreel-vid

2026-01-04

A little bit of baking this morning.

Tape baking, I mean.

#tapetransfer #openreel #vintagetape #scotch

Freshly baked open reel tapes
Wolfgang Stiefstiefkind
2025-09-28

Habt ihr schon mal was gehört oder gesehen vom Open Reel Ensemble? Die machen Musik nicht auf sondern mit Magnetbändern. Enjoy: youtube.com/watch?v=i-6WfT8RAh4

We watched "Late Night with the Devil" (2023) tonight. I posted a #5SecondMovieReview of it earlier. We enjoyed it.

However... one little thing about it is nagging at me, like a splinter in the mind's eye.

It's a period piece, set in the #1970s. The major thread of the story includes a psychologist and her sessions with a patient, which are #recorded. Part of one is played back as part of a #television show, and onscreen during that #playback is an open-reel (aka reel-to-reel) #tape #deck playing a tape.

1970s, open-reel recording - it's #retro, it's #cool, it's period-authentic, right?

I can't shake the feeling that whoever put the visual together has never actually seen an open-reel tape recorder in operation. This picture is lousy, because it's a screencap from the movie, which is supposed to be showing a television broadcast in good old analog SD - but it gets the point across.

See anything wrong?

The takeup #reel, on the right, turns clockwise, the opposite direction of the (normal) direction of the supply reel. So the tape wraps onto the inner side of the takeup reel, and ends up "inside out".

There's also no tension arm on the supply side, and an apparent #tension arm on the takeup side, but it's not actually in the tape path.

I don't think any machines were actually made like this, but I'm not an #expert. Can anyone identify the deck they butchered or digi-simmed to create this #sin against nature? 😉

#OpenReel #ReelToReel #audio #audiophile #TapeDeck

A screen capture from a fictional television documentary featured in the movie "Late Night with the Devil" (2023).

It shows an open-reel tape recorder (aka reel-to-reel) with a tape loaded on it.  The scene this is taken from shows the playback of the tape.  The tape unspools from the left-hand supply reel counter-clockwise normally, but the takeup reel on the right-hand side turns clockwise, with the tape passing to the left of the center axis of the reel.

I'm not aware of any decks that actually work this way.  There are other oddities too, like no tension arm on the supply side, an apparent tension arm on the takeup side but which is not actually in the tape path, and various other weirdnesses.
This account has movedemsquared
2025-01-06

One of the more affordable releases on open reel tape. Very Ltd run. Only 6 remaining.

zakedrone.bandcamp.com/album/c

7" open reel tape spool atop four printed reel cases. An upright box container is to the left showing minimalistic artwork, white text on black background
Radio AzureusRadioAzureus
2024-11-11

Analog Tapes a nice experience that Bill Hume recorded for us

youtube.com/watch?v=qYHb_le1k4E

Don MagnétophoneVoronoV@boitam.eu
2023-02-18

Let's go to the restaurant ✌️
#tape #openreel #reeltoreel

Me wearing a hoodie, there is a white open reel deck on it, with the name of the famous Youtuber Techmoan.
Don MagnétophoneVoronoV@boitam.eu
2023-02-05

EN
Have you demagnetized your tape deck this year ? Cassette AND open-reel ? All the decks at home ?

FR
Avez-vous démagnétisé votre lecteur de bande cette année ? Cassette ET magnéto à bande ? Tous les lecteurs chez vous ?

#tape #cassette #taperecorder #openreel #reeltoreel #R2R 💖

2023-02-03

The ingredients for a little baking this afternoon.
#Ampex #OpenReel #Reels #AnalogueTape

Ampex Tapes
Don MagnétophoneVoronoV@boitam.eu
2022-12-28

In English :
Box and reel of MAXELL UD magnetic tape.
Bought new in a music store around year 2000.
7in reel, 1800ft of 35 microns tape.
96 minutes of playtime (4 tracks at 7.5in/s) : 48 minutes in each direction.
Normalized duration of 90 minutes.
2 tracks at 7.5in/s : 48 minutes total playtime.
2 tracks at 15in/s : 24 minutes total playtime (it's not very long 🤨)
#tape #openreel #taperecorder

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