[QuadList] WRC B/W to Color Quad tape

[Charles Park Seward]

Hi Don,

Yes, the EE test looks good. Examining a tape from 1962 Burbank and one from 1966 TV City showed excellent reproduction in LBC. I bet you are right that the tapes I looked at earlier were dubs. 

One thing I noticed was the announcers were lip syncing to their voice track. Since wireless mics aren't in common use then (wasn't Vega one of the first), in order to get good audio on a very wide shot, the audio was recorded in advance. Perfect sound no matter where the announcer went.

And I love that TK-41 look.

Best,
Park

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On Jan 19, 2014, at 8:19 PM, Don Norwood <dwnorwood at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Park Seward"
>> 
>> I have a question about the early color recordings. I have some low band color recordings from the middle 60s and I see a lot of herringbone interference. Is that because of the frequencies they used? Is there a way to clean that up?
> 
> Hi Park:
> 
> Will be interesting to see what Ken and others have to say.  The LBC
> standard does exhibit moire which was one of the reasons for the move to
> HBC.  As far as I know, there's no way to get rid of it, but there are
> several things to evaluate in order to determine if what you are seeing is
> "normal".  First of all, take a look at the video in EE mode with LBC
> selected as your standard.  The moire that you see should be the "normal"
> amount that would be expected from LBC.  It will be dependent on the content
> of the video, and can be most easily evaluated with a steady signal such as
> color bars.  As a further test, you can compare two different machines in EE
> as a check to be certain that there's not a problem with the signal system
> since they should produce the same results.
> 
> The second part of the problem relates to how the tapes that you have were
> recorded.  If they are first generation, they should essentially look like
> the EE signal (as far as moire is concerned).  But if they are second
> generation or later, and if they were video dubs from LBC masters, then the
> moire has been recorded into the video signal, and it will appear along with
> any moire that is a product of the LBC demod, so that the amount of moire
> will exceed the "normal" amount that you see in EE.
> 
> Another possibility if your tapes were recorded in the mid 60's and they are
> dubs, is that they could still be first generation as far as the LBC
> standard is concerned.  After HBC became available in '64, it was common to
> have a HBC master that was then dubbed to LBC for distribution to stations
> that were still largely equipped only for LBC.  That practice continued for
> a number of years, so you can have a tape that is a dub but is only a single
> generation of LBC.
> 
> Don
> 
> 
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