Constantin Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 I have dozens of "mix" tapes at home, cassettes I suppose. Pretty cheap ones. Most of them are very good at printing through, so in between songs I could (can) hear what's on the reverse side of the cassette - in reverse. At first I thought I was going crazy, then I learned what it was. I used to have a really cheap tiny Monacor mixer (gone unfortunately) which was very good at cross-talk between two adjacent channels. No TC was involved, but it's well possible some gain stages weren't set correctly. I was very young then... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Constantin Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 I have dozens of "mix" tapes at home, cassettes I suppose. Pretty cheap ones. Most of them are very good at printing through, so in between songs I could (can) hear what's on the reverse side of the cassette - in reverse. At first I thought I was going crazy, then I learned what it was. I have just been alerted by the Senator that in this example I mixed up print-through with head alignment. Nonetheless cheap tapes are quite capable at printing through, you just need to wait long enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Blankenship Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 Print-through occurs when the magnetic lines of flux from one layer of tape is strong enough to slightly magnetize a layer of tape next to it -- more than one layer in an extreme case. As the affected section of tape plays, you hear a faint pre-, or post-echo of the sound from the other layer. In this discussion we've actually talked about situations that are examples of: Crosstalk Fringe Effect Print-through Channel Bleed ...some of which can be kind of the same thing (e.g. Crosstalk & Channel Bleed). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taylormadeaudio Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 I sure love this forum : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atheisticmystic Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 I sure love this forum : ) lol just thinkin that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjafreddan Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 Maybe you've already started shooting by now. I always tell production to use proper TC. Why? Because it's my reputation / (a**) on the line when the editors starts whining about the sound being out of sync. BTW, why is never the picture out of sync with the sound? 👺 The money they spend on the XDCA-FS7 module will be recuperated when post spend less time chasing sync. And they also get V-mount, Hirose output etc which are nice features to have. I use a Time Code Buddy system and it's really good. It enables me to use it as a normal time code reference or as a wireless RecRun/TC AutoRec with my SD664. For two camera and when the second camera is a DSLR, I send a mono audio mix which serves as cue monitoring and sync reference in post. But I would never rely on an audio sync track on the main camera. Time Code is not something to save money on, period. Cheers Fred Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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