[QuadList] Andy Williams (was Question about PAL-M Quad players)

[bill.spencer at northstarstudios.tv]

Having personally transferred many of the Andy Williams tapes from the
60's on old brown 3M I will tell you that it was a challenge, but
through baking and cleaning we got the powder (which is hyaluronic acid
from the moisture reaction with the binder) off and made good transfers.

 

I'm still fighting some Ampex 195 that is more like chewing gum than
tape!

 

Bill Spencer

RF Engineering Supervisor

NorthStar Studios, Inc.

3201 Dickerson Pike

Nashville, TN 37207

 

Phone 615.650.6000 ext. 6610

Cell 615.445.5616

Fax 615.650.6027

email bill.spencer at northstarstudios.tv

 

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From: quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com
[mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of Trevor
Brown
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:07 AM
To: DCFWTX at aol.com
Cc: 'Quad List'
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Andy Williams (was Question about PAL-M Quad
players)

 

David

It was rumored that Andy Williams show ran into White Powder clogs (not
involved only a story) and could not be recovered

I will see if I can track the source of the story down

I have never had either a Chroma 90 or 3m's 420 that I could not
recover, worst case is it came off in sections and needed a little
editing

 

BBC engineers made a Christmas tape called White Powder Christmas
(chroma 90) and another called Good king Memorex

Seems to have be taken of you tube, but rip scratch from Good king
Memorex is still on the VT old Boys site

 

http://www.vtoldboys.com/gkm01.htm# <http://www.vtoldboys.com/gkm01.htm>


 

Trevor Brown

 

From: DCFWTX at aol.com [mailto:DCFWTX at aol.com] 
Sent: 28 August 2009 14:01
To: videovault at sky.com
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Andy Williams (was Question about PAL-M Quad
players)

 

In a message dated 8/28/2009 3:31:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
videovault at sky.com writes:



Also be interested in how old the PAL M tapes are and what stock they
were recorded on old tape do suffer moisture, and of course 420 and
Chroma 90 had white powder problems in the UK

Again interested to know if the USA had similar problems, was this not
what killed the Andy Williams show recovery


Are you sure about this? I transferred several hundred Andy Williams
shows several years ago for Andy's son Bobby. Very few of them were on
Memorex Chroma 90 (a known sticky tape source), and I never encountered
one that I could not fully recover. 

Just curious to know about this story.

Best Regards,



David Crosthwait

DC Video 
Archived Media Transfer & Re-mastering Services
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Burbank, CA. 91502
818-563-1073
818-563-1177 (fax)
818-285-9942 (cell)
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DAVID at DCVIDEO.COM
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