[QuadList] Question of the week-RCA AE 6000 editor

[Gary Adams]

The TEP was popular (for RCA folks) since it was frame accurate to the tone.  With the TR-600, They came out with a TEP replacement called SE-1.  Sorry I don’t have pictures.  It did not use a tone but used control track to count the frames.  And we all know how accurate that can be.  So if you were ok with +/-1 frame, then the SE-1 was ok.  You used a Mark In and Mark Out button.  Thumbwheels were used to trim offsets to the mark points.  Didn’t care for it and had to install a few which was a real pain with lots of wire wraps to the backplane.  I’m sure David has a picture of this too!

 

Gary

 

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The ECCO unit was an add on to the VR-2000.  The first one that I saw was in Hollywood at a post house that put in the mass duplicator by Merlin.  It was where I think Jack Calloway worked.  Being old now has memory fades from 40 years ago.  Could it be Teletronics?

 

I will see if I can get my scanner to work again.  The we can show the different units.  The TEP was a device that did not work using SMPTE time code.  It put a cue tone down and then you used the thumb wheels to move the edit points.  The cue tone was put down 14 seconds before the edit.  Then you do the rehearsal.  

 

I believe that TEP was a single machine system.  I remember the blue ribbon connector on the TR-60 that was labeled TEP.  I saw one at one installation but never had a chance to see it in operation.

 

Chris Hill

 

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