[QuadList] Quad Carts--Links to RCA and Ampex photo examples

[David Crosthwait]

ACR cart vs TCR cart. A comparison:



Having run both machines, the ACR is my preference. 

TCR cart and machine pictures here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3577059257552&set=a.3577050697338.2132982.1005211240&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3577063057647&set=a.3577050697338.2132982.1005211240&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1838419632648&set=a.1239751666323.2033527.1005211240&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1838420432668&set=a.1239751666323.2033527.1005211240&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1903934830487&set=a.1239751666323.2033527.1005211240&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1970457733518&set=a.1969855038451.2095951.1005211240&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1970464893697&set=a.1969855038451.2095951.1005211240&type=3&theater

One interesting note that I've said in the past on this list: As far as I am aware, NBC New York and Burbank were the only operations to air prime time commercials directly from a cart machine. I am fairly certain that CBS and ABC integrated their commercials into slugs in the air master being played back, but I stand to be corrected. 

Best Regards,

David Crosthwait
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On Aug 16, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Steve Greene wrote:

> 
> Thanks everyone for the information!  The three I've found (so far) are Ampex. 
>  
> I'll try to take some pictures of my own.  I always like to put a pencil or my keys in the foreground for scale when I shoot something like that.
>  
> Steve
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> >>> "Gary Adams" <garyada at ix.netcom.com> 8/16/2012 2:20 PM >>>
> Just to provide the other view.  The doors covered the tape fairly well.  These were the 3 minute versions, but the one minute carts were more commonly used.  It was interesting that Scotch 400 tape was used and recommended.  When 420 came out, it clearly had a better picture with less noise or “chroma spread” but the tape had serious issues with “stiction” in the machine.  The smooth surface against the posts and audio head assembly caused the tape to stall after it was cued and ready to go.  I spent quite a bit of time at customer sites sorting this out after they rebuilt carts using 420 tape.  It was easy to demonstrate.  Too bad since the picture was noticeably better. 
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> While both RCA and Ampex carts produced proper quad recordings, I’m fairly certain the procedure of removing the tape and playing it on a quad was seldom used.  Even at our low end station, we always had the original quads on the shelf.  It would have been a lot of trouble to actually perform the complete task.  And they wouldn’t have easily been interchangeable between machines since both used a different method of cueing (timecode vs. tones) and the end of tape sensing would have been different.  Not efficient in any case.  We were luck to have either of these machines in the day as it really freed up the manual task of loading 2-4 quad machines for a break.
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