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Hi John

Someone just gave me a weird 4 track powered Lanier Advocate R to R from the court system,
the thing has the slowest tape speed I've ever seen,


How hard is it to get this thing to run 15 ips or 30

[John Klett]

That is a voice quality "logging" recorder.  I'm not sure of that particular model but there are multitrack versions of these that are used for logging 911 calls.  I would say that, while anything is possible, a conversion to 15 or 30ips would be difficult in the extreme and not worth the effort.  Tape speed is one thing.  Record and Play equalization, bias and frequency response issues are another.  There are limits to what one can do with something like this - especially since nothing about these machines was designed for anything but recording voice only well enough to be played back intelligibly.