Groove Note Reel to Reel

The Groove Notes are impossible--and I mean IMPOSSIBLE--to come by. (And I've tried my best to buy one of the three listed titles.) It seems that Ying doesn't have his heart in it. :(

Last time Ying and I spoke, he was doing two runs of 8 reels each with all the tapes already earmarked for customers in Asia. The tapes are pretty expensive since the transfers are done one at a time by Bernie Grundman and his time ain't cheap. Last I heard, the tapes were $600 each. Now that was a little while ago but haven't heard any more about them. In fact, I don't know anyone who has any of the three titles announced and that includes Greg Beron.
 
Elusive disc lists a number as "in stock". You are correct about the price.
 
Just received this email.

I am selling these Groove Note Tapes through Elusive Disc. I have already sold some to my existing Opus 3 Tape Customers. Anyone who wishes to purchase the Groove Note Tapes can do so by contacting Elusive Disc directly or ordering them through their website. They can also contact me if they want but the sale will still go through Elusive Disc etc.

Here is some additional information for you on these tapes:

The first three titles in the Groove Note Master Quality reel to reel tape series are:

- GRV1001 Jacintha: Here's To Ben
- GRV1002 Roy Gaines: I Got The T-Bone Walker Blues
- GRV1046 Anthony Wilson: Jack of Hearts

These three titles are all original direct to 2-track recordings made at
Oceanway Studios in Hollywood (Here's To Ben and Jack of Hearts) or
at Record 1 (in Sherman Oaks) by Joe Harley and Mike Ross. All the
dubs in this series will be made by Bernie Grundman using the original
30 ips 1/4 in. 2 track masters. The masters will be played back off his
customised and rebuilt Studer A80, then run through his EQ board, and
straight into a series of Ampex ATR102 tape machines.

The initial series of Groove Note tapes will be made using reels of NOS
Quantegy GP9 at 15 ips. EQ will be NAB and there are 2 reels per title.
Reproductions of the original cover art are included.

Price is $599.99 per title plus shipping.

Since we run the actual session masters to make these copies there will be a limit to the number of times Groove Note will do this. Bernie says it's probably safe to run the masters for this project another ten to twelve time so a rough production limit might be 30-35 total copies of each title.

Once that threshold is reached, that title will no longer be dubbed.

Please let me know if you need any other information.

P.S. - I have a new shipment of FONE Sampler Tapes coming this week if any of your customers are interested in getting some FONE Tapes.

P.S. II - I will probably have the FONE tapes loaded at Elusive Disc soon as well.
 
I just ordered "Jacintha Here's To Ben A Vocal Tribute To Ben Webster Master Quality Reel To Reel Tape" and I hope it sounds great. Supposedly there were only 2 left when I placed my order and I have received my order confirmation.
 
That tape oughta to be really good. Heard the Jacintha a while ago at my place (not the GN reissue) and the tape was oh so much better than the LP!!!!! In fact so much, any similarity between the two recordings was purely coincidental.

I'm leaning to the latter two, especially the Anthony Wilson (he's also appeared on Diana Krall's recordings since 2001).
 
mep said:
I just ordered "Jacintha Here's To Ben A Vocal Tribute To Ben Webster Master Quality Reel To Reel Tape" and I hope it sounds great. Supposedly there were only 2 left when I placed my order and I have received my order confirmation.
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+1. I checked out the others - but this one interested me the most.

Ordered!


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Myles B. Astor said:
Just received this email.

I am selling these Groove Note Tapes through Elusive Disc. I have already sold some to my existing Opus 3 Tape Customers. Anyone who wishes to purchase the Groove Note Tapes can do so by contacting Elusive Disc directly or ordering them through their website. They can also contact me if they want but the sale will still go through Elusive Disc etc.

Here is some additional information for you on these tapes:

The first three titles in the Groove Note Master Quality reel to reel tape series are:

- GRV1001 Jacintha: Here's To Ben
- GRV1002 Roy Gaines: I Got The T-Bone Walker Blues
- GRV1046 Anthony Wilson: Jack of Hearts

These three titles are all original direct to 2-track recordings made at
Oceanway Studios in Hollywood (Here's To Ben and Jack of Hearts) or
at Record 1 (in Sherman Oaks) by Joe Harley and Mike Ross. All the
dubs in this series will be made by Bernie Grundman using the original
30 ips 1/4 in. 2 track masters. The masters will be played back off his
customised and rebuilt Studer A80, then run through his EQ board, and
straight into a series of Ampex ATR102 tape machines.

The initial series of Groove Note tapes will be made using reels of NOS
Quantegy GP9 at 15 ips. EQ will be NAB and there are 2 reels per title.
Reproductions of the original cover art are included.

Price is $599.99 per title plus shipping.

Since we run the actual session masters to make these copies there will be a limit to the number of times Groove Note will do this. Bernie says it's probably safe to run the masters for this project another ten to twelve time so a rough production limit might be 30-35 total copies of each title.

Once that threshold is reached, that title will no longer be dubbed.

Please let me know if you need any other information.

P.S. - I have a new shipment of FONE Sampler Tapes coming this week if any of your customers are interested in getting some FONE Tapes.

P.S. II - I will probably have the FONE tapes loaded at Elusive Disc soon as well.
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Four new tapes added at Elusive Disc.

Elusive Disc - Search Results for reel to reel
 
Anyone interested in selling there R2R copy of Jacintha's "Here's to Ben"? I will pay top dollar for it. Thanks.
 
I just got the Jacintha Autumn Leaves album from Groove Note. Amazing sound. I've enjoyed Jacintha's voice and technique. Even though the tapes are $600, they are really master dubs - the tape boxes are labelled "Safety Masters." The two tapes are each about 30 minutes long, so there is reasonable value for money. She is also featured on the FIM tribute to Karen Carpenter album, where I first heard her.

Larry
 
astrotoy said:
I just got the Jacintha Autumn Leaves album from Groove Note. Amazing sound. I've enjoyed Jacintha's voice and technique. Even though the tapes are $600, they are really master dubs - the tape boxes are labelled "Safety Masters." The two tapes are each about 30 minutes long, so there is reasonable value for money. She is also featured on the FIM tribute to Karen Carpenter album, where I first heard her.

Larry
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Congrats Larry! What a treat.


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c1ferrari said:

I wonder what rationale directed NAB/IEC2 rather than CCIR/IEC1/IEC EQ ?

:hey:
Sam
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Hi Sam! Had to look back because didn't remember saying that; turns out didn't, was from GN release. :)

Not exactly sure but suspect tapes were recorded NAB and Bernie kept them NAB. Am just bringing home a copy of Lyn Stanley's latest recording on tape. Was done by Al Schmitt at Capitol obviously in NAB; Bernie made a copy of the production master in NAB too. Jonathan Horwich is doing the consumer copies and he is changing it from NAB to IEC via a via Lyn's instructions. Not sure if I would or problems entailed.
 
Myles B. Astor said:
Hi Sam! Had to look back because didn't remember saying that; turns out didn't, was from GN release. :)

Not exactly sure but suspect tapes were recorded NAB and Bernie kept them NAB. Am just bringing home a copy of Lyn Stanley's latest recording on tape. Was done by Al Schmitt at Capitol obviously in NAB; Bernie made a copy of the production master in NAB too. Jonathan Horwich is doing the consumer copies and he is changing it from NAB to IEC via a via Lyn's instructions. Not sure if I would or problems entailed.
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Hi Myles!

There exists a school of thought to maintain the source EQ, e.g., source NAB --> dub NAB.
I'm not conversant with the reasoning which supports this school.

Anyone have technical details...blank tape stock (RMGI SM900, SM911, or ATR Magnetics, perhaps)...recording level (+6 dB over 185 nWb/m, for example)...absent NR? How about tones for optimizing azimuth and repro?

A friend has some/all of these tapes, however, I haven't been over for a listen, yet :audiophile:
 
c1ferrari said:
Hi Myles!

There exists a school of thought to maintain the source EQ, e.g., source NAB --> dub NAB.
I'm not conversant with the reasoning which supports this school.

Anyone have technical details...blank tape stock (RMGI SM900, SM911, or ATR Magnetics, perhaps)...recording level (+6 dB over 185 nWb/m, for example)...absent NR? How about tones for optimizing azimuth and repro?

A friend has some/all of these tapes, however, I haven't been over for a listen, yet :audiophile:
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Sam! Welcome to AS! I real sure the GN tapes come with at least one test tone at 1kHz. Mine will be here soon.
 
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