HISTORY:

My "world" is 'the arts' and more specifically, music, artwork and hand crafted/decorated chinaware's.

I ran an audio post production facility for many years and our world was analog tape (all sizes) shellac, vinyl and even 1940's cardboard records from WWII!

I am working through an amount of 1/4" magnetic audio tape which has been well looked after (temperature controlled environment in the dark!) and now it is time to find new owners for this gear.

At this stage, most of the tape is 1/4" up to 7 inch reel size and a wide range of manufacturers

This BASF audio recording tape is BRAND NEW, SEALED (Factory retail hang pack - NOT shrink wrapped which some try to pass off as new - be careful buying new audio tape!) Excess stock which is no longer required, ALL my machines have "left home" and I am out of the audio business, professionally, these days.

BASF is well known for their great tape recording media, suitable for all speeds (we even used to run this up at 30ips (!) for very short jingle creations. Perhaps most important of all is the fact that these tapes from BASF are NOT known for their tape shed issues, unlike many other tapes. If you would like to read other users opinions about BASF LH tape, take a look at THIS FORUM (frequented by knowledgeable folks, unlike many other audio forums)

Never heard of tape shedding? It is an absolute nightmare for the R2R professional or enthusiast because not only will the tape run very noisily, it deposits masses of oxide on the heads and transport path - Urghhh, a big cleanup job is often required if a tape has shed when being played.

HERE is some more detailed information about the dreaded tape shedding issue

So here we go ...

BASF - Audio Recording Tape

Manufactured in Germany

Circa Late 1990's ~ 2010 (this is the time period we were importing these from Germany)

Formulation: LH Series

Format: 1/4"

Size: 5 Inch Reel

Length: 275 Metres

Recording time (approximate)

3.75ips - 45 minutes

7.5ips - 22 minutes