Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorders: Practical Advice and Tips on Ownership and Use.


A seminar from which you will gain all the knowledge you need about tape formats and recorders.
You’ll learn which tape will play on which machine and which tape recorder best suits your listening application and budget. 

Iain Betson has worked for over 30 years in the professional and consumer audio industries. He is now considered to be one of the foremost authorities on the reel-to-reel format in the UK.


Trained by the BBC as a studio support engineer at Broadcasting House in London, Iain worked in the studios at BH, at the world-famous Maida Vale studios and the Corporation’s Radio “Outside Broadcast” department.
During his career he has worked on a vast range of reel-to-reel recorders, from quarter inch machines, suitable for home listening, to studio based 24 track 2” tape format models.