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  1. For a quick index to select posts, click the blue links below 42 Jeff Wexler's movie list 1000 "NEW" The Nagra ISS, the Story 364 CIA the Second Recorder 455 Nagra II Video 146 Meet Jeff Wexler(Youtube) 307 Nixon Resigns Picture 373 “New” The Nagra Story, updated Feb 2018 478 The Third Covert recorder 151 My Nagra VPR-5 319 “New” The Nagra JBR updated Feb 2018 400 The Nagra SN (Copy ) 479 The 1966 Covert recording 102 Well, we DID have Big Drinks the day. 333 A Special Gift 404 There’s only One, Nagra I 480 The Fourth Recorder 225 What I found out about the Nagra I 335 The Nagra DH Difference 405 Great Nagra Collection “Vienna Collection” 482 Finally, Fifth and Final Record 232 Conversation with Stefan Kudelski 337 The Mystery of the Yellow Recorder 422 An appropriate answer 430 What happened to - Serie Noir? 252 The First Nagra III 347 CIA issued Recorder 425 Early Nagra SN serial #’s 363 Dating & "New" Reverse Record 268 The Sony and the Telefunken 790 GREAT Nagra III Collection by BGAULLIER 952 Earliest Known Nagra III by PiO 576 The Nagra IS Differences by DELA #27 Senator Mike Michaels interview 681 1st 1959 Nagra III by Antonine 922 Jwsound gets Attention from Nagra Audio 154 Marilyn and the 1960 Nagra III Video 962 The Gold SN - Test 220 A different kind of Soundman 282 1969 Zuiko 1st Microcassette video 906 “New” The Nagra SN Series - from Prototype to Production 131 Adam Savages Nagra IV-S YouTube 1003 The Nagra 1 Story that sold for 20,000.00 =========================================================================================== My name is Bond, Joseph Bond. I collect tape recorders, yes, "Tape" recorders, from toys to spy to professional movie recorders of the past. Some of you know me as undercover. Today I'm JBOND I’m interested in this site and your profession because many of you recorded many great movies on the Nagra recorders I have in my collection. Reading a thread earlier about the movie The Shining, I’m sure that was recorded on a Nagra. Which one, anybody knows? I want to keep those stories alive before they are gone forever. These were the recorders many of you started with, primitive by today's recording standards, yet still, some of the greatest movies ever made were recorded on these recorders. I'm hoping, if I supply the pictures it will jog one's memory of the good and bad days using these recorders and some will supply the historical stories to go with them, stores that only the people that used them know, Stories that only you guys can share. Stories about, I hated using them, loved using them, they were a pain in the ass to use, to the changing out the tape in time, dropping the tape while everyone waited for you etc. dropped it off the top of a building recording such and such movie. We all saw the movies anything happen in a particular movie using a particular Nagra recorder that you can share? Whats your vintage Nagra story? What movie did you record with your Nagra and which machine did you record it on. Or what girl, actor or actress kept your attention while your tape spooled under the lid? The following pages are the Nagra stories sound men will never tell. Photos marked with RJW are copyrighted. Any use other than private with or without the RJW watermark is strictly forbidden, without written permission from the owner. Photos marked with RJW are copyrighted. Any use other than private with or without the RJW watermark is strictly forbidden, without written permission from the owner. .
  2. The CS-106 has three Nagra sockets—two (in and out) for a stereo Nagra (IV-S) and one with both ins and outs for a mono Nagra (4.2). Has anyone ever used both at the same time? I am experimenting with ambient recordings and would like to try it. I’ll wait a day for comments and then if nobody says “don’t”, I’ll try myself and report back.
  3. Hi, my first post, hope it’s in the right place. I’ve made cables to connect my Cooper CS106 with my Nagra IV-S via the dedicated Tuchel connectors on the 106 and it’s all working fine and I like the remote roll switch on the 106. One thing though; when setting levels using the 1k tone on the 106 I basically have to have the volume potentiometers 100% clockwise on the IV-S to reach -8db, which I believe is correct. Could someone confirm this is to be expected, or if not, offer advice? Any unrelated advice also welcome. P.S. I’ve very much enjoyed reading some of the other threads here, thank you.
  4. I have a Nagra IV-S machine which I used to transfer quite a few 2 track tapes to digital. However, the utility of the machine as a transfer and home audio deck would be magnified a thousand fold if I was able to play 1/4 track tapes on it, of which I have A LOT, as well as 2 track. As a safe transport for old delicate tapes it has no equal. I was thinking that maybe a 1/4 playback head could be installed where the pilotone head is, and could be switched in and out of the playback amp. Has anyone ever heard of such a conversion? Has anyone here ever converted a Nagra into a 1/4 track machine? Or know anyone who could do such a thing? Has anyone here ever SEEN a 1/4 track conversion on a Nagra? Any thoughts on the subject would be so welcome!
  5. Filed under "restoring a friend's old Korean War era Navy Band recitals." According to the American Chemical Society, reel to reel tape is prone to degradation, which has been a topic of active research for many years. It's well known that applying heat can often reverse the damage sufficiently to enable playback, usually by baking the tapes in an oven. Now scientists at the US Library of Congress have determined precisely why this method seems to work, presenting their findings earlier this month on the American Chemical Society's SciMeetings online platform. The primary culprit for the degradation is known as "sticky shed syndrome," in which the binders used in a magnetic tape to hold the iron oxide casing to the plastic carrier deteriorate. They form a sticky residue that can damage both the tape and playback equipment. [...] [E]xperiments showed that when a degraded reel-to-reel tape is heated, the sticky residues melt back onto the bulk polymer layer, rendering the tape playable once again. That's why 130F is the sweet spot for baking degraded tapes; it's the melting point for the residues. (This fix, however, only lasts several weeks. Plenty of time to digitize the media.) Article https://m.slashdot.org/story/370234
  6. I'm about to tear a Nagra III apart to replace a failed motor (broken commutator). I wonder if anyone here has attempted such a replacement, and would be interested to know how that turned out. I know that the Nagra III Service manual has dire warnings about disconnecting the motor shaft from the encoder wheel. No doubt Kudelski's ghost will haunt me, but I cannot see that this would be impossible. I will of course be replacing belts and clutch felts as well, but the motor encoder system is my current main concern.
  7. I have a Nagra IV-S machine which I used to transfer quite a few 2 track tapes to digital. However, the utility of the machine as a transfer and home audio deck would be magnified a thousandfold if I were able to play 1/4 track tapes on it, of which I have A LOT, as well as 2 track. As a safe transport for old delicate tapes it has no equal. I was thinking that maybe a 1/4 track playback head could be installed where the pilotone head is, and could be switched in and out of the playback amp. Has anyone ever heard of such a conversion? Has anyone here ever converted a Nagra into a 1/4 track machine? Or know anyone who could do such a thing? Has anyone here ever SEEN a 1/4 track conversion on a Nagra? Any thoughts on the subject would be so welcome!
  8. I've got a Stellavox AMI-48 up for grab in mint condition. Tested and working and knobs been fixed so no crackling when turning them. All lights work and its been used by my dads friend 6 si gle times in its lifetime. Its been shelved for decades until i found it and got it from him for free. I have only started it and tested it and only improvement i did was leaving it at a vintage synth repairmsn who cleaned it overall and also inside so the knobs nolonger makes the crackling sound. Even the plastic cover which is original is almost mint condition. Anyone in here intrested? (Better sell it to an enthusiast than average joe on ebay)
  9. I have a film coming up and production wants to record on film and tape. I intend on using my analog mixer, take the direct outs and record the ISOs into my 788T, and send the mix to the Nagra, and back into the 788T. The idea being that everything is already there, even though the tape mix will have a delay, it'll have the slate, and the actual tape would have TC on it. I guess my question is this: should I record everything at 24fps, 23.976, or something funky like 48048? I know that normally we would ask post, however post has not been lined up yet, and likely will not until after we've shot the film. So if anyone has ever done something like this, please chime in
  10. I came across this item and I can't find out any information about it. The barrel slides open and allows you to put in (6) 1.5 volt button batteries in. If it is a inline mic power supply, will it take the place of other power supplies. Any information would be greatly appreciated. I was unable to upload any pictures
  11. Hi all, I was attempting to do a health checkup on a friend's Nagra 4.2 and before I could even run an MRL tape to check response and azimuth I noticed that the tension was acting very strange. The tension rollers for both the supply and take-up sides are bouncing up and down adding a horrible wow to playback. The motor mode on the meter shows the current wildly fluctuating in time with the rollers if that gives any clues. The issue seems to eventually go away while running at 15ips but persists at 7.5 and 3.75ips. The tape stock isn't sticky and the tape path is very clean. The machine had been in storage for at least five years though. Just wondering if this is a familiar problem and if anyone has any ideas of the cause? I'm still searching for a proper service manual but it would be great if I could get some clues in the interim. Also, does anyone know if there's any easy way to determine the EQ curve of a 4.2? I own a Nagra IS-LT and a "NAB" sticker was attached to one of the PCBs.
  12. Thanks to Alex Milne of RFVenue for coming out to NYC, full interview available here: http://blog.rfvenue.com/rich-topman-of-professional-sound-services/
  13. http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/roadtournagra/1.html
  14. NAGRA has a new website. http://www.nagraaudio.com
  15. I don't know if you all have seen this, but I found a nice item on Ebay. Who wants it? I love cool old gear like this! http://www.ebay.com/itm/STELLAVOX-NAGRA-CUSTOM-CONSOLE-MIC-PRE-AMP-MIXER-M101-SENNHEISER-DENECKE-/150988643947?_trksid=p5197.m1992&_trkparms=aid%3D111000%26algo%3DREC.CURRENT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D14136%26meid%3D5479916346505074734%26pid%3D100015%26prg%3D1085%26rk%3D2%26sd%3D321065157252%26
  16. Hi I need to buy a set of stereo omni's that I would like to use for: Types of recording 1) Atmosphere and nature 2) Acoustic instruments (Closer) 3) Choirs & orchestra 4) Organ 5) Brass Ensemble 6) Brass quintet 7) Chamber Strings Other info - I also have Schoeps CMIT5 & CCM8 in MS to add if needed I also have a Neumann U87ai to help where needed. Recording to Protools Via Apogee Trak2 and hopefully a Nagra vi in the very near future I was looking at 1) DPA 4006 TLM Stereo kit 2) Schoeps Collette HS Stereo Kit Will any of these mic's (or others) be able to cover all those recording needs. I only have budget for one set, and will then save up for an ortf setup as well. Thank you!
  17. A provisional operating manual for the Nagra EMP preamp fell into my hands so I thought I would post what I learned. I haven’t yet played with the device itself but I could borrow an example if anyone is interested to know more. (I have worked with essentially the same preamps on a Nagra VI so I’m generally familiar with the source.) Briefly, it is a two-channel preamp, with built-in recording capability, designed as a stand-alone device or as a companion to the Nagra VI recorder. When used with the Nagra recorder, it draws its power from that source. As a stand-alone it can be powered either through a Hirose connector (accepting 9V- 13V) or from four internal AA batteries. Its size is very close to the Sound Devices Mix-Pre2. At 7.5 x 2 x 6.9” the Nagra is slightly smaller than the SD unit but only slightly. Weight, with batteries, is 2.2 pounds. According to Nagra, the preamps in the EMP are essentially the same as those used in the Nagra VI recorder. That would make them among the very best available in any portable device. Frequency response runs from 10 Hz to above 40 kHz and is flat from 20 Hz. Nagra claims a S/N of better than 114 dB. The pots are a match to the Nagra VI design. While there is no full-scale meter, there are three colored lights immediately above each knob. They are programmed at the factory to come on RED @ -1 dBFS, YELLOW @ -9 dBFS and GREEN @ -30 dBFS. Internal switches permit the user to re-set the lights to suit their own preferences. Phantom power is available, of course, and there are built-in limiters that may be engaged or disengaged for each channel individually. One can also choose a fast or slow attack time. Lights, independent of the three lights above each channel fader, indicate limiter activity. Two low-end filters may be independently engaged for each channel or one may operate flat. The low cut filter has no effect on program material above 60 Hz. Below 60 Hz, the graph line plunges like a diver. This is a welcome addition to the preamp design, providing a steep reduction in low frequency response for wind and handling noise without any effect on the deepest bass voices or even most instruments. The second position, called Vortex, provides a gentle slope beginning at a higher frequency and yielding about 4 dB of reduction at 100 Hz and more than 10 dB at 50 Hz. This is designed for effective wind control in blustery conditions with minimal effect on low voices. Nagra makes a point of emphasizing that the filters are hardware designs and not implemented through software. While the ability to change slopes and settings is sacrificed, the effectiveness of software filters is limited because they come later in the chain. With low frequency rumble, like wind noise, the circuit may already overloaded before the software filters come online. Inputs and outputs are via standard XLR connections. Output levels are adjustable but only by changing the positions of internal jumpers. The EMP has a built in recording capability. Files are saved to an internal 2 GB flash memory and may be ported to a computer through a USB connection. Recordings can be made at 32, 44.1 or 48 kHz. Oddly, only 16-bit recording is supported and there is no mention of timecode. The internal recording seems to be intended more as a back-up capability than as a primary function. This seems a nice addition to a Nagra VI. In a compact box it provides two additional channels of microphone inputs with operational characteristics that match the recorder. As a stand-alone device, I expect its attraction will be limited. I don’t know the cost but I would expect Swiss precision to be more expensive than the competitive Sound Devices MixPre. While I expect that the Nagra’s performance is probably superior, I wonder if that’s a distinction one would hear in most film applications. On the other hand, for people doing music recording, it offers the best performance in a small and user-friendly package. David
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