Buying Cassette Tapes For The Mt400; Mt400 Recording Format - Yamaha MT400 Bedienungsanleitung

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Buying Cassette Tapes for the MT400

It is important that you buy the correct type of cassette tape for use with your MT400. You
should buy high-quality Type II (High Bias, 70 µ s EQ) chrome cassettes of 90 minutes or less,
such as TDK SA or MAXELL CDXL II.
At normal speed, a 60-minute cassette provides about 15 minutes of recording time. That is
because the tape runs at twice the speed of a normal cassette recorder and you can use only
one side of the tape.
The following table shows the available recording times with three standard tape sizes:
Note: We recommend that you use a brand new cassette tape for important recording. If you
record on a used tape repeatedly, the recorded sound may skip or sound quality may
deteriorate.

MT400 Recording Format

A normal cassette recorder uses only two tracks (i.e., left and right stereo channels) for each
side (A and B). The transport direction of the A side is opposite that of the B side. The MT400
uses only one side of the cassette, and records and plays up to four tracks simultaneously or
one at a time. Therefore, tapes with all four tracks recorded on the MT400 cannot be played
on normal cassette players. If you try to play back a tape recorded with normal cassette
recorders on the MT400, you will hear Tracks 3 and 4 play backwards.
Normal cassette recorder tracks
MT400 tracks
The tape speed of normal cassette recorders is 4.8 cm/second. On the other hand, the MT400
uses 9.5 cm/second as its standard speed to achieve high-quality sound.
—Owner's Manual
Cassette Tape
(with the standard speed)
C90
C60
C46
MT400 Recording Time
Approx. 22.5 minutes
Approx. 15 minutes
Approx. 11.5 minutes
Side B (left channel)
Side B (right channel)
Side A (right channel)
Side A (left channel)
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
transport
direction
transport
direction
transport
direction