<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Gary Adams wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="margin-left: 2.4pt; margin-top: 2.4pt; margin-right: 2.4pt; margin-bottom: 0.6pt; word-wrap: break-word; "><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 2.4pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> If it exceeds the TBC window, then you need to find another TBC (or an Ampex<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">J</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">). I loved my job but I loved Ampex machines too.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div>We had about 12 TR600s at Unitel in New York City during the 1970s and 80s. It was the first recorder that I learned to operate, and we regularly loaded one and sometimes two of them into our remote trucks to do location shoots. <div><br></div><div>One of the trucks was a former Philadelphia bread delivery van and had no air conditioning. We had some pretty good engineers keeping the Norelco PC70 and</div><div>PC90 cameras happy, and I don't remember much downtime from our mobile TR600s. </div><div>We offloaded them back into the studio on 57th Street after the remotes, so they could be used for studio shoots. Often the location and studio shoots used the VTRs iso-fed, with no camera switching during during production. I remember operating 3 TR600s for studio shoots with 3 logs to keep, 3 lockups to confirm, and a very quick and detailed description in mind to write on each log, including the Director's comments as heard through the headset. </div><div><br></div><div>I saw the dense backplane of the TR600 and learned about wire-wrap. It didn't make sense that its connections could be better than soldering, but I was assured that with the wire contacting 4 corners of a squared post numerous times that it was even better than solder.</div><div><br></div><div>When I moved into the edit rooms as an assistant and then later as an editor, I worked with 4 TR600s under CMX (I-squared) control. Eventually I became the editor-in-charge of the older edit room, outfitted with Editec, 3-Ampex VR2000's, 1-TR600, a Sony BVH-1100 (later 1200, later 2000), a Grass Valley 1100 switcher with Richmond Hill downstream keyer/fader, 2 b+w title cameras, an animation stand with downshooting Thomson Microcam, and an Ampex HS-200 programmable disk. I learned how to keep all this equipment working and optimized; edits were performed with clients in the room 'live,' timing the prerolls (no timecode) so that a group-start switch gave me a few seconds to confirm lock and then go through the motions at the switcher, dissolving, cutting, keying, to audio track. </div><div><br></div><div>In retrospect, the VR2000's were certainly better suited to their tasks, but I still always loved the THrUnK-Pssh of the TR600's transport controls. Left out of this revisionist memory is the horror of the occasional half-cycle H-shift at match-edit points. Another item worthy of mention is the annealing of an artist's temperament that working with New York advertising clients requires.</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; 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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- </div><div>Rob Lingelbach <a href="http://www.colorist.org/robhome.html">http://www.colorist.org/robhome.html</a></div><div><a href="mailto:rob@colorist.org">rob@colorist.org</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>