Reel to Reel How To?

[deckeda]

chopper wrote:
Hi

Thanks. I'll look at YT. I have never in my life used a reel to reel and have no idea what goes where in terms of the tape. It has sides?

I assume the tape goes on the left and feeds through to the other side?

Yes and yes.

The tape was surely loaded onto its reel correctly ... there's a shiny side (facing down) and the oxidized side (facing up toward the heads). If from that photo you just flip the reel such that the supply reel (left) has the tape "under" the reel when fed through ... eh just watch YouTube!