Re: [ARSCLIST] Transporting 10 inch pancakes

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A CBC producer I worked with in Edmonton had been a tonmeister in Germany, 
where they work exclusively with pancakes, not reels. He said you weren't a pro 
until you'd rescued a master that had fallen off the hub.

And another CBC producer in Ottawa was trying to put together three programs 
based on piano roll recordings that had come from Australia via the EBU and had 
one roll he had to spend hours rescuing before we could use it (I think we were 
going to go live to air on that one, too!).

THEN there was the situation at CJRT in Toronto in the mid 60s, where 
professionals did much of the daytime programming and students recorded some 
other shows, including an all-night program which was done at slow speed on 
thin tape and played by an automated system involving two Crowns and a relay 
that triggered the second machine when the first tape ended. This involved 
cutting the tape at the desired switchover point and leaving it attached to 
nothing, since the trigger was a light beam in the first machine. Invariably 
the tape wouldn't stop and the morning man would come in to find gazillions of 
bits of tape flung all over the studio. And on one occasion, the professional 
(it was Ted O'Reilly, doing his Jazz show live) must have rewound the all night 
tape and had it pack up inside the reel and had to try and rescue the tape 
without destroying it..because he triumphantly announced on the air that there 
WOULD be an all night show after all.

dl

Kiwi O'Connell wrote:
> I agree with Parker, Richard and Tom.  You really don't want your precious
> tapes looking like this -
> http://www.cupsnstrings.com/xSites/Agents/cupsnstrings/Content/UploadedFiles
> /Ugly%20Tape.jpg
>
> The client said "some tape came off the reel"!  It took 86 hours to get this
> 1/4 inch analog tape back on to a 10.5 inch reel.  Proper packaging is
> paramount!
>
> Cheers
>
> Marie
>
> Marie O'Connell
> Sound Archivist/Audio Engineer/Sound Consultant
> 3017 Nebraska Avenue
> Santa Monica, CA, 90404
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>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> [mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Parker Dinkins
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:27 PM
> To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Transporting 10 inch pancakes
>
> on 2/6/07 3:59 PM US/Central, Jerry McBride at jerry.mcbride@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have experience with moving a collection of quarter-inch
> > tapes, as ten-inch pancakes in their original boxes? It seems logical to
> > assume that it would be safer to ship or move tape on reels. How great
> > is the danger that the pancake will come unwound under normal shipping
> > and moving conditions if stored on hubs in the original boxes?
>
>
>
> AES Standard for audio preservation and restoration- Magnetic tape - Care
> and handling practices for extended usage (AES49-2005):
>
>
> 4.5.5 Flangeless hubs
>
> Sometimes magnetic tape is stored on flangeless hubs. When this practice is
> used, the following recommendations shall be observed:
>
> a) Only backcoated tape designed for storage on a flangeless hub shall be
> stored in this manner. Non-backcoated tape will not wind properly and is at
> high risk of falling off the tape pack.
>
> <snip>
>
>
> In the past week I've received and repaired two broken tape packs which were
> stored on flangeless hubs.
>
> One of these was backcoated tape which didn't travel via common carrier at
> all. The other was non-backcoated and packed tightly with a styrofoam tape
> spacer.