I used a PCM-F1/SL-2000 combo extensively in the 1980s; about 150 concert recordings total. Roughly half with my Soundfield MkIV used as a stereo mic (and a few in B-format to 4-track analog). I'd do very rudimentary 'pause-button editing' to take out long pauses; anything fancier was with analog tape and razor blades.
I copied most to DAT in 1990 with a Sony TCD-D3 purchased in Akihabara before you could get them in the US. I now have a PCM-601ES/SLHF-450 betamax combo. All but a few of the earliest PCM-F1 tapes still play without error. Most of the DAT copies are unplayable. My earlier recordings made with a Nagra IV-S on Ampex 407 are playable if you bake them first. Since then, another 100 or so in B-format on DA-88, ADAT, HD24, or direct to laptop. Aaron ([email protected]) Menlo Park, CA US On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Fons Adriaensen <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 04:04:43PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > > > We did edit using SLO series Betamax, but it was control track > > editing, nothing with reference time code. It was much later > > before I encountered anything that could be locked to proper > > SMPTE time code. > > I remember doing that. And if I remember correctly the editing > was controlled by an Apple II. You had to cue the two machines > (one playing, one recording) manually, and then the Apple would > make both rewind the same number of frames, start them, and > trigger record at +/- the right time. There was a good chance > the edit failed, and if that happened you had to try again a few > frames earlier. This ofter meant you had to redo the previous > edit as well. We only used it to clean up live concert recordings, > anything else would have been hell. I much preferred cutting and > splicing tape... > > Ciao, > > -- > FA > > A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. > It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris > and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140317/07720aae/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
