Philip Perkins Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Tonight, playing back a roll of Scotch 111 recorded in December 1964 (and maybe played twice since), to copy to digital. The tape is #59 in a long series of interviews with Dorothea Lange for a doc made about the making of her last show, and was lost from the series since the film was edited in 1965. It had ended up with a relative, for some reason, and thus was indifferently stored in a box of misc photos etc in an attic somewhere. The tape played perfectly on my disused Nagra, the sound was clear and full, whoever recorded it (prob Nagra III) used a good mic and good positioning. I doubt very much that a tape recorded in 1984 and stored similarly would play so well w/o baking etc... Boy, I had forgotten how noisy 16mm film cameras were. Sounds like an NPR, or that would be my guess for that time period. philp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Mills Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Did you have to rest bias on your machine prior to doing the playback? I eventually will have some similar vintage tapes from a relative's work as an anthropologist... though she has donated her Nagra III to a friend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Toline Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Setting the bias is done for recording. Aligning the playback head azimuth for best high frequency response is done for playback. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Smith Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Philip: I'm assuming you didn't care about the Neopilot sync signal bleeding into the audio? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted January 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Philip: I'm assuming you didn't care about the Neopilot sync signal bleeding into the audio? Izotope RX hum is your friend. Pure 60Hz tone @ very low level: gone. philp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Smith Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Aw, that's cheating! --S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Rose Posted January 27, 2014 Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 Philip: I'm assuming you didn't care about the Neopilot sync signal bleeding into the audio? Shouldn't have been an issue at all. Transfer using both channels of that IV-S, summed together equally. The pilot will cancel itself out, just like it does on the full track mono play heads of a III or IV. Used to do it all the time on a Studer 810 as well. The only caveat is that play head alignment is a bit more critical in this case… but you're going to be tweaking to the original tape anyway. Since you're not disturbing the IV-S's record head, it'll be pretty fast to put the play head back into standard alignment after the job is done. (Assuming it was aligned in the first place.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Smith Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Yeah, that will work, assuming you match the levels very carefully. On the other hand, you could just use a mono machine.... --S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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