Iii fi/Stereo Review's $1.25 1966 TAPE RECOR ER ANNUAL EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TAPE RECORDING How to Choose aRecorder -À Roundup of Video Recorders Tips on Tape EditIng Taping Stereo FM Microphones Picking the Best Tape How to Tape from Mscs PLUS: Directory of Stereo Tape Recorders, Accessories, Mikes Live Better Electronically With NEW! LAFAYETTE Eariterion 1000-- PROFESSIONAL 4-TRACK SELF-CONTAINED STEREO TAPE RECORDER 11 Ifi/Seo Wifl Review All things considered, I would rate the Criterion 1000 as one of the best under— $300 recorders i have tested. It sounds fine, looks even better, and sells for $199.50. HI FI Stereo Review May 1965 Records and plays 4-track stereo and mono tapes through its acoustically matched 6x4" hi-fi speakers. Three speeds, 71/2,3 /34 and 1% ips for up to 8 hours playing time. Six pushbutton tape motion controls. Genuine teakwood cabinet. With 2 dynamic mikes, cables and 7" take-up reel. Imported. 99-1501WX 199.50 LAFAYETTE DELUXE PORTABLE WIDELY ACCLAIMED LAFAYETTE LAFAYETTE DELUXE TAPE RECORDER Model RK-142 4-TRACK PORTABLE TAPE PUSHBUTTON 4-TRACK STEREO RECORDER Model RK-137A TAPE RECORDER Model RK-675 • Takes Reels Up To 7" Our finest portable. Records and plays Compact and lightweight, the RK-142 back 4-track stereo tapes. Six easy-to-use records and plays at 2 speeds, 7/12 and pushbuttons; 2 speeds, 7/12 and 3/34 ips; 3/34 ips, for up to 4 hours recording time. 2-speeds, 7/12 and 3/34 ips. 4-track mono digital counter; dual record level meters; Built-in 6x4" speaker; lever-type tape record/playback; adaptable to 4-track sound-with-sound recording. With simu- motion control; record level indicator. stereo playback. With dynamic mike, lated leather case, 2 dynamic mikes, With mike, cables. Imported. patch cord, 7" take-up reel. Imported. cables, 7" take-up reel. Imported. 99-1512WX 59.95 99-1511WX 89.50 99-1504WX 179.95 NEW 1966 CATALOG NO. 660 Featuring Everything in Electronics for rrk from the World's Hi-Fi 8, Electronics Center Write to Lafayette Radio Electronics Corp., Dept. TRA-6, P.O. Box 10, Syosset, L.I., N.Y. 11791 CIRCLE NO. 24 ON READER SERVICE CARD How to get any recorded tape at the lowest possible price ...and fast Join the Citadel Record Club. Unlike record stores and clubs that offer discounts on selected specials, Citadel gives across-the- board discounts. AH 4-track recorded tapes, all phonograph records. See for yourself how much money Citadel can save you. Now, for less than the price of a single tape, you can join Citadel for life. Or, at even lower cost, you can try Citadel for one year. Here is what Citadel Record Club offers to all its members: Discounts! Tremendous price reductions on all tapes and records; in certain cases you save as much as 55%. Nb obligations! You buy as few or as many tapes or records as you wish. No agreements to sign. All labels! Any tape, record or album that's in print is available at a discount to Citadel members. Your choice is unlimited. Promptest service! Orders are usually shipped the same day as received, rarely later than the next few days. Citadel is famous for speed. 100% guarantee! Guaranteed factory-fresh, unplayed, defect-free tapes and records; if not, you are entitled to an immediate replacement. Free Schwann and Harrison catalogs! Every new Tape and Record Division member gets both cata- logs free; every new Record Division member gets Schwann's free. The Schwann catalog is the 300-page standard reference guide to nearly 30,000 long-playir% records. Harrison's is the standard guide to all stereo tapes. r I Citadel Record Club TRA6 1 1 545 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017 I I Please enroll me as a member in the Citadel I.• . Record club. Iunderstand that Iam entitled to a a all membership privileges without any obliga- ! I tion to buy anything, ever. If after 30 days I I I am not satisfied in every respect, my dues will I I be immediately refunded. No questions asked. a a I EJ 1am enclosing $7.00 for lifetime Tape and a a Record Division membership. É a I E I am enclosing $5.00 for lifetime Record m Division membership. a ! i] I am enclosing $4.00 for a trial-year Tape I I and Record Division membership. 11 i E Iam enclosing $3.00 for a trial-year Record i a Division membership. I I Name 1 II I I Address I I City State Zip I Ma mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm CITADEL RECORD CLUB 1966 EDITION CIRCLE NO. 7 ON READER SERVICE CARD As tracking forces have become lighter, and stylus and the music continues from where it left off. assemblies more delicate, so has the danger of dam- Regarding automatic play: The Lab 80 is asuperb age from manual handling increased. To eliminate this transcription turntable for single play. But, in addition, hazard, Garrard has built into the Lab 80 an ingen- it includes an exceptionally gentle, built-in record ious tone arm cueing control. This feature protects changing device, enabling you to play a stack of your records as no other turntable can. eight records fully automatically. The Lab 80 integral cueing control works for you in three important ways: 1. To play a single record: Press the Manual tab. the perfect unit This starts the motor and activates the tone arm cueing control. The arm stays suspended asafe half inch over for taping and the record. Position the tone arm over the first (or any) groove. Now, press the cueing control and the stylus protecting your records lowers gently into the groove. 2. To cue arecord during manual or automatic play: Press the Manual tab. The arm st4 rises and stays a half inch above the record. Move the arm to the band or The groove desired, and press the cueing control. The C- stylus lowers slowly and accurately into the groove. With this feature, there is LAB 80 no necessity to lift the arm by hand causing acciden- Automatic tal ¡arring or scraping of the stylus across the record. ranscription Turntable 3. To pause during manual or automatic play: When you want to interrupt the music, is the only automatic... press the Manual tab. The arm rises directly over the record and stays there. The turn- table continues to revolve. When you are ready to resume play, press the cueing con- trol. The stylus lowers accurately and safely, that performs on cue! LAB 80, $99.50, less base and cortr,dge For your copy of the 32-page Comparator Guide, write Garrard, Dept. GY-1505, Westbury, N.Y. 11591. Iii Ili/Stereo Em io\‘ 's 1966 TAPAFICORDER SELECTING THE RIGHT RECOR DER JOHN M ILDER 15 HOW TO CHOOSE A M ICROPHONE J.G ORDON HOLT... 19 A ROUNDUP OF THE NEW VIDEO TAPE RECORDERS ROBERT ANGUS... 24 A PRI MER OF TAPE RECO RDER M AINT ENANCE .H ERBERT FRIEDMAN... 30 WHAT MAKES A GOOD RECORDIN G TAPE ? BURT HINES.. 32 W HAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TAPE HEADS HERMAN BURSTEIN.. 36 HOW TO CR EAT E YOU R OWN SOU ND EFFECTS ARTHUR ZUCKERMAN.. 40 TIPS ON TA PING STEREO FM J GORDON HOLT. •. 43 TAPE RECORDING AND THE LAW JOHN KOSHEL, JR.. • 45 THE SECRETS—AND JOYS— OF RECORDING CHILDREN ... BYRON G.W ELS .• 46 SIGNAL-TO-NO ISE RAT IO IN TAPE RECORDERS HERMAN BURSTEIN. 50 HOW TO SELECT A PORTA BLE RECOR DER .... HARVEY V. FONDILLER. •. 52 CREATI VE TAPE EDITIN G EDWARD TATNALL CANBY .• . 55 TRANSFERRING RECO RDS TO TAPE ROBERT ANGUS. 59 DIRECTORY OF M AN UFACTU RERS 5 A TA PE RECORDER GLOSSARY 6 TAPE RECOR DER DIR ECTORY Recorders, Players, and Transports 65 Raw Tape 92 Tape Accessories 96 M ICROPHONE DIR ECTOR Y 103 PRERECORDED TAPE ROUNDUP 115 ADVERT ISERS' IN DEX 134 PHILLIP T. HEFFERNAN, Publisher • WILLIAM ANDERSON, Editor WILLIAM LIVINGSTONE, Managing Editor • LARRY KLEIN, Technical Editor BORYS PATCHOWSKY, Art Director • ROBERT S. CLARK, Associate Editor LAWRENCE SPORN. Advertising Sales Manager 4,314re , —6E6 G- 1080 TAPE RECORDF-R ANNUAL in published by the 7.111.1tavls Publishing Company, One Park Avenue, New York. N.Y. 10016. Also publishers of HIFI/Stereo Review. Popular Electronics, Electronics World, Electronic Experimentees Handbook. Communications Handbook. and Stereo '11111 Directory. Copyright F1065 by Ziff- Davis Publishing Campan'. All rights reserved. ZIFF-DAV1S PUBLISHING COMPANY. Editorial and Executive Offices. One Park Avenue. New York. N.Y. 10016. MPA Telephone: 212 Olt 0•7200. William R. Ziff, Chairman of the Board 11046-19531; William Ziff. President: W. Bradford Briggs, Executive Vice President: Hershel B. Sarbin, Vice President and General Manager: Philip sine, Financial Vice President: Walter S. Mills. Jr.. Vice President, Circulation: Stanley R. Greenfield, Vice President, Marketing: Phillip T. Heffernan. Vice President: Frank Pomerantz,, Vice President, Creative Services: Arthur W. Butano., Vice President. Production. New York Office: Eastern Advertising Manager: Jerry Sweeney. Midwestern Office: 307 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Illinois 60601. Telephone: 312 726-0892. Eastern Advertising Manager: Jerry Sweeney. Western Office: 0025 Wilshire Rind.. Beverly Hills. Calif. 90211. Tele. phone: 213 (It 4-1:265. Western Advertising Manager: Rad Dean. .4E— CIRCLE NO. 4 08 READER SERVICE CARD 3 SOME SHAPES NEVER CHANGE For example, a spoon, a VW or an 88 Stereo Compact. They are made for a specific purpose and fulfill it so well, the basic design never changes. Improvements are made though. Spoons are better balanced.