Re playing back anything Ampex vs RCA

[chill315 at aol.com]

Gary

You are right.  But there were times when we had to pick and choose between a VR-1200B, AVR-2, or a TR-60.  Some of the practices were terrible out there.  The worst were TV stations.  I remember having a station send the production guy and a engineer 250 miles from upper lower Michigan to try to finish a commercial.  I spent a couple of hours teaching how to get quality out of a quad.  Did it set in?  Probably not.  Just throw up a tape and hit play.

Chris Hill

> On Sep 24, 2014, at 2:01 PM, "Gary Adams" <garyaadams at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> At least the Ampex machines could play back just about anything at the time.
> I always had difficulty when installing TR-600s at an Ampex facility since
> the interchange was tight.  I could get tapes to play on the 600s but not
> without adjusting something.  The other way around was much easier.  At
> least I knew both systems well enough to help customers use them.  I'm
> really amazed many of these machines are still running.  
> 
> Gary
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chill315 at aol.com [mailto:chill315 at aol.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 11:49 AM
> To: Gary Adams; Quad List
> Subject: Re: [QuadList] Capstan Information
> 
> Gary
> 
> Yes that was a difficult thing to keep just right.  I would bet that almost
> all 525 machines had the mod to use the 625 capstan frequency post as a fine
> trim.  We did that.  Record does have feedback to keep it locked.  Assemble
> edits were a problem and we never did them. Bill Carpenter told us about the
> elegant solution that the EIPD division came up with.  Use a tach in the
> capstan.
> 
> Chris Hill
> 
> 
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