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Posted by Charles Tomaras on 10/24/73 11:45
"Mike Rivers" <mrivers@d-and-d.com> wrote in message
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> Charles Tomaras wrote:
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>> Is there any one with a professional VHS machine that allows easy
>> alignment
>> changes that takles recovery jobs like this? Can VHS be baked and if so
>> at
>> what temperature?
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> The problem isn't going to be solved by baking. It's not sticky shed. I
> don't know about a VHS machine (most audio pros used Beta with the PCM
> processors because it had certain advantages that I don't remember) but
> I know that Dave Glasser at Airshow Mastering has a Beta machine that
> he has set up for tweaking. If these are important enough to spend a
> lot of money getting copied, you might get in touch with Dave.
At the time back in 1984 - 1986 when I recorded this stuff I had the
brilliant idea of going with a VHS HiFi deck and recording both the digital
PCM bitstream and Hi Fi tracks on the same tape thinking I could use the hi
fi tracks if need be without the processor. It seems to me now when I last
tried to play some of these tapes that the heads on my VCR got very dirty
very quickly so I am thinking there is some shedding going on. I've pretty
much left them since then which was a couple of years ago. I don't have
rights to any of the stuff but it includes live recordings of folks like
Wayne Shorter, Michael Brecker, John Abercrombie, Mike Stern, Dave
Valentine, Kevin Eubanks and a host of other notable jazz musicians. At the
NPR station I was working at the time we had a great little mic collection
with a bunch of U-87's, 414's, 421's, RE-20's and an AKG Stereo mic for
crowd. So while the live to two track mixes may not be perfect, the
recordings were very fine documents of those performances. When I realized
the playback problems a few years ago, I took my vacuum food sealer and
sealed up the tapes and now they sit in my basement. I may try contacting
Dave Glasser to see if he has some thoughts and estimates for persevering
some of this stuff. I suppose I could alternately just contact the artists
and see if they have any interest in preserving them. I have no interest in
peddling them, merely to have the record of my youthful recording endeavors.
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