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<DIV>Chuck:</DIV>
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<DIV>You are correct about the record RF switching. Merlin offered
the ME-148 to address this problem. There's a literature page for it
here:</DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://www.digitrakcom.com/MERLINlit.html">http://www.digitrakcom.com/MERLINlit.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Don Norwood<BR>Digitrak Communications, Inc.<BR><A
href="http://www.digitrakcom.com">www.digitrakcom.com</A></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=cwreti@gmail.com href="mailto:cwreti@gmail.com">Chuck Reti</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com
href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">Quad List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 02, 2010 12:09
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [QuadList] Mechanical
Splices</DIV>
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<DIV>Depending on the type of music, doing video-only inserts could be
troublesome.</DIV>
<DIV>As I recall, during a video insert, the heads recorded across the full
width of the tape, and<SPAN
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class=Apple-style-span> relatively quiet passages could sometimes be
heard with a bit of 960Hz buzz in the background.</SPAN></DIV>
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class=Apple-style-span>Didn't some machines later on switch video record off
on each head as it passed over the longitudinal audio track to eliminate
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