Re: [ARSCLIST] Tape Speed resolver question

[Goran Finnberg <mastering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Maddocks:

> The tapes were recorded in 1975 and I have had no success in discovering
> what type of resolver/synchronizer hardware was used to generate the
> sync tone and then speed resolve the tapes. 
> 
> A spectrum analysis of the sync track shows a predominant peak at about
> 3KHz.
> 
> The signal may be a form of FM pilot.

Hmmm.

At about 3 kHz.

SMPTE time code used for synching is close to 2.4 kHz.

This was almost in universal use back then.

http://www.philrees.co.uk/articles/timecode.htm


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