Re: [ARSCLIST] Tape Speed resolver question

[Bruce Maddocks <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Listening to and looking at the sync tone the source is constant, no
change in frequency, or data that I can tell.

This leads me to believe it is a Machine Resolve tone, and not a
automation tone that would change as data is added.

I have heard some interesting theories, including the possibility of
hand (VSO) resolving the 2nd machine based on watching the tones on a
scope( and listening to the tracks of course)

Bruce

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Karl Miller
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 7:56 AM
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Tape Speed resolver question
> 
> 
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Scott Phillips wrote:
> 
> > Bruce,
> >
> > Are you quite certain that the sync tone you hear isn't tape based 
> > automation data instead ? In that era, up through the early 
> '80's, a 
> > number of consoles did it that way, disk based systems 
> being still in 
> > the infant stage....
> >
> > Scott
> 
> I guess it was about 1979 or so when our recording studio (at 
> the University of Arizona) acquired a 24 track machine and a 
> digitally controlled mixing board. The extra track(s) were 
> control tracks for the mixer. As I recall, the information on 
> those control tracks were specific to the mixer we were using 
> at the time.
> 
> Karl
>