Re: [ARSCLIST] Tape Speed resolver question

[Scott Phillips <scottp@xxxxxxxxx>]

True. One of the most common was the MCI JH400/500/600 consoles. They
used 2 tape tracks, and bounced the data back and forth to update the
mix. It wasn't that uncommon to only have a single automation tape track
though, and it was just punched in on. Not the best technique, but if
you had limited tracks like 16 track....

The MCI data was not fully compatible between the console models, but
there was a 'compatibility mode' in the 500/600 series to allow the
reading of the older model data. 

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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Tape Speed resolver question

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Scott Phillips wrote:

> Bruce,
>
> Are you quite certain that the sync tone you hear isn't tape based 
> automation data instead ? In that era, up through the early '80's, a 
> number of consoles did it that way, disk based systems being still in 
> the infant stage....
>
> Scott

I guess it was about 1979 or so when our recording studio (at the
University of Arizona) acquired a 24 track machine and a digitally
controlled mixing board. The extra track(s) were control tracks for the
mixer. As I recall, the information on those control tracks were
specific to the mixer we were using at the time.

Karl