<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I wasn't in the engineering department while operating a bank of Ampex AVR-3s -- so things either functioned or they did not. Up to that point I had only ever worked in mono, but those machines had stereo heads, which we mostly implemented to ping-pong tracks for later mix-down. Using an RA-4000, editing dialogue was sometimes like trying to hit free-throws form center-court. Never really did stereo audio work during that time, other than pulling in mag/optical tracks from feature films that were being telecined for duplication to VHS distribution. *That's* when the azimuth issues started to manifest, and also when the company started taking C-format more seriously, instead of the giant 90-minute reels feeding tape through at 7.15 ips. Yep, half speed, longitudinal audio, and changing out heads, re-optimizing everything including erase delay, every time, with "the BIG screwdriver."<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 2015-06-26, at 12:42 PM, Steve Greene via QuadList wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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; font-size: medium; ">Not sure if the Ampex beasts had azimuth adjustment.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>
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