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| This section presents a series
of articles and other documents on media history. If you would like to
see your article presented here, please email
me. |
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Title
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Init. Pub.
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Last Rev.
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| Abstract
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| National Association
of Broadcasters |
Tape
and disc standards |
1964 |
1976 |
The National Association of
Broadcasters (NAB) has kindly provided permission for making available
their obsolete standards for cartridge, cassette, and reel tape recording
as well as for disc recording. These are not as comprehensive as the
IEC standards but provide useful data for engineers and restorers attempting
to understand what went into making the recordings that they are currently
restoring.
Each of the four standards are presented in two different formats: searchable
scan and formatted text and graphics. The searchable scan is generally
the most useful, but the formatted text and graphics shows the OCR errors
(which are hidden in the other version) and would be useful if you wish
to quote a portion of the document in a research paper.
Please note that while I have permission to make these available in
their entirety, these standards are still under copyright by the National
Association of Broadcasters. Thanks are due to Janet Elliott and Graham
Jones of the NAB Science and Technology Department for arranging for
the permission and for the clean scans from the NAB library.
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| European Broadcasting Union
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Review of existing systems for the synchronisation between film cameras and audio tape-recorders |
1973-02 |
2006-03 |
| In 2005, someone sent me a poor fax of a portion of EBU Tech 3095
Review of existing systems for the synchronisation between film cameras and audio tape-recorders.
I asked the EBU for a copy and permission to post it. They opted to make it available on their web site. This is an important
document to aid in understanding synchronization systems when "double system" film sound recording was in widespread use utilizing
magnetic audio tape (as opposed to sprocketed film). |
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| Hess, Richard L.
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The
Jack Mullin/Bill Palmer Tape Restoration Project |
2001-07 |
2001-05 |
| This Project Report in the Journal
of the Audio Engineering Society outlined the work done by the author
of these Web pages to reproduce tapes that Mullin brought over from Germany
in 1946 and were used for recording shows such as Philco Radio Time
with Bing Crosby and The Burl Ives Show (also sponsered
by Philco) until a domestic supply of tape could be secured. After Mullin
started using new tapes, his partner Bill Palmer used some of these tapes
for industrial film soundtracks. |
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| Engel, Friedrich
Karl and Peter Hammar |
A
Selected History of Magnetic Recording |
2006-08 |
2006-08 |
| A brief history of magnetic tape
from the BASF Historian and the founding curator of the Ampex museum.
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| Engel, Friedrich
Karl, ed. |
Oberlin
Smith and the Invention of Magnetic Sound Recording |
1989-06 |
2006-08 |
| An Appreciation on the 150th
Anniversary of the Inventor's Birth |
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| Engel, Friedrich
Karl |
Walter
Weber's Technical Innovation at the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft |
2006-08 |
2006-08 |
| Walter Weber (1907-1944) was
one of the highly innovative engineers at Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft
(RRG, German Broadcast Company). Judging from today's standpoint, his
most im-portant contribution to the development of audio technology was
the implementation (not the inven-tion) of high frequency biasing in practice.
Thus at a single stroke magnetic recording became the most favourable
method in sound recording, both in terms of reliability and quality. Subsequently,
Weber combined magnetic tape recording and stereophony. Thus the state
of recording technology at RRG was ahead of its time. |
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