That Sony deck is sweet. Thing looks like it's built like a frickin' tank! Also... that 8MB SIMM for $102 may seem insane, but honestly, that must be quite late in the era because I remember my dad shelling out over $350 for four 1MB sticks like that for our 386DX40... 8MB for $102 is a steal! =D
Damn straight buddy! Back in 1993 I paid UK £100 for 4Mb (4x 30-pin, 1Mb SIMMs) (plus the obligatory 20% tax on top, plus another UK £10 postage, so UK £130 in total for 4Mb of 70ns RAM - not sure what the exchange rate was like back then, but by today's rate, that would be $222.93 Canadian ! O_O ) So like you said, 8Mb for $102 is a real bargain!
Oooh I remember 1990's when i working with a editing station with 2 Sony U-matic dubbing audio track to translate originals tapes in english, to spanish, from a Teac 8 trk mixer and a 8 Trk Tascam 48. Great days for me
Once you're done with the TI computer you might want to send it to Adrian Black of Adrian's Digital Basement. That's up his alley and he has repaired a number of those before.
You took me down memory lane being camera op, having a vcr op & sound op. Interesting how you archive. Might be the way I need to go with DV - as my dv gear doesnt want to talk to win 10. Thanks for making this.
Maybe Johnny should go into storage with other tossed stuff ,We enjoy ur video's and appreciate the time you take to show us your high tech repairs experience and knowledge.
Johny shithead files privacy complaints if i mention his screen name. He keeps trying to post but he is banned and every time he tries a new screen name he gets banned there too. Reminds me of by sysop days. Easier to ban the trolls in the dial up days as I could just ban their phone number and then they had to change their number if they wanted back online.
I use to have one of those Panasonic machines, and use to repair those porta pak machine too! They had a real touchy dew sensor, if memory serves me correctly. And yes they were ridiculously heavy!!
Still got one old Sony Umatic player, who knows, it might still work. Used it to copy some old master tapes to SVHS so they could be used as dubbing masters. the rerst were Betacam, so were eent out to be played, and the SVHS tapes were then copied to another, before the final stage of making VHS copies. As the copy machines had stereo they all got a stereo track, though with the Umatic you actually had 2 channel audio, one with and one without music. Those went as mono, selecting to mix the channels instead. I did wear out quite a few head drums on the copy machines, but the nice thing about National is they all had auto loaders, so you could do a set of 6 tapes all at a single session, and leave it unattended for the time. Did have to build a controller for it, the original was made by messrs Heath and Robinson, and abused 555 timers and electrolytic capacitors in order to get multiple minute delays. Took an old 386sx motherboard, one HGC controller with built in parallel port, and wrote some GWBasic to act as a simple sequencer. Fitted the entire lot on one diskette, and made a second copy of it as well as backup. Do still have the machine in the garage, but no HGC monitor to use with it any more, but it likely still works. Used 2 Panasonic wired remote control boards, one for the recorders and one for the player, so they all responded to stop, forward, reverse together, but only the player could emulate play, and only the recorders could emulate record and eject. Parallel port open collector outputs (predated EPP by a lot) and the recorder had external switch inputs plus switches on the board, all pulling to ground, plus also ran off 5V.
For some reason my university's media department was still using U-Matic SP as their primary format into the late 90s. When I asked why not Betacam SP or one of the DV formats, their response was "this is what media services orders". By 2003 they were on DVCPro with all Panasonic gear so I guess they switched not too long after that!
The community station I work for when I started there most of the stuff was done on Ampex a format 1-in tape. Then they got some 3/4 decks, the exact Panasonic model that I have here was one of them, after I left I understand they went to beta SP and that was mainly because their sister company which was a commercial production house was using beta. Then they went to DCcam and then I have no idea because I haven't been there in 38 years at my friends that work there of all since left. I don't even think they do any programming anymore out here the cable company was bought out by EastLink and I think they got rid of all their local production although I could be wrong but I just don't see the truck around like I used to they had this big truck for their mobile production and I haven't seen it for years.
Neat! I'm interested in the gear you mentioned in a video how you were broadcasting TV over ham. I have a few blonder tongue agile RF modulators and a view-teq vtm-12cpc. I really want to figure out how to either broadcast that clearQAM OTA or take the modulators out of the rack with the combiner and use them to xmit stuff in my RV park. (posted on the auto play next video, meant to do it here, sorry)
I've got one of those U-matics that I'm trying to get working. I've been frustrated by the loading and unloading not working so well. one of these days I'll find some belts that fit.
You keep posting great content. Simple folk can only cope watching so much every day and then the brain tends to get mushy. I am surprised you capture to Memorex discs and DVD format. There are are amazing little devices available now for grabbing composite video right to a memory card in a box the size of a pack of smokes..
@@12voltvids which presumable means encoding to dvd first and then someone would rip the dvd and re encode again, unless of course you burn as data to disc. Some people! It seems DVD is alive and well in the USA, in the UK all I see is mp4 or mkv on USB devices. It's rare to hear of people wanting DVD over here as a first choice.
@@Super8Rescue I get requests for tapes archives to usb and then they complain that the quality isn't good enough and they come back and get it on dvd. Many times when they want on usb, i record to DVD-RW then rip as .mpg and hand that to them on usb stick. Quality superior. Then i wipe yhe DVD-RW and use again. That's why I was recording these to dvd-rw. Also so that if the tape screws up I don't make a coaster. In this case the DVD RW was copied to a DVD-R and then the RW disc reused. I find the quality is better going direct to DVD then capturing on computer and it's faster. Some clients want an Avi on a hard drive and for that I just captured direct with my Sony DV capture device. Quality wise that has a slightly better picture but not by much. It also burns up 12 gigs per hour.
@@12voltvids I just did all of our old family VHS and 8MM tapes recently. JVC SR-V10U S-VHS > Panasonic DVD recorder (for comb filter and external TBC for some problem tapes) > retro AGP build PC with an ATI all-in-wonder card > VirtualDUB with per-tape optimized levels > Lagarith (lossless). You want to talk about big files... haha. Those raw captures were archived to LTO3 tape. From there, post processing: noise reduction, deinterlacing, cropping, scaling. End results encoded to H.264 and burned to BD-DLs and uploaded to TH-cam.
That looks like a good old machine to me, maybe one day you will give the mechanism a clean and give the belts a boil treatment. That recording was not so bad, it's watchable. The random noise might have been smoothed by the act of making a copy to dvd, there is always h.f loss. I know about recording data to cassette, Sinclair zx81, zx spectrum 48/128k. The average game took 3-4 mins to load, and sometimes it crashed at the end. Later i got a mgt diskdrive interface, 2-3 seconds lol. Nice panasonic tape recorder :-D
I too have alot of old electronics ETC in Storage, May need to get rid of some Due to health reasons but yet its hard to get rid of stuff one had a long time, plus really not Many buyers around here any More.the good thing, guess its good to know i'm not the only one hoarding old Electronics, i used to like Working on stuff, but have not been Since my Health isn't as good as it used to be,I too have alot of the same types of things like you have, but mine is mostly VCRs and stuff and DVD players etc, a few older Receivers in the mix along with other odds and ends that some day gonna need go through again.
Where do you think many of the repair projects come from. All those VCRs or at least most were from my tape duplication days. There are also boxes of VHS and beta tapes that i need to go through and archive what I want to keep and then bulk erase and dump the rest. Just never have time to sit down and go through them.
Have you seen the fake restore videos where people find stereos or boombox in the mudd and then claim to restore it. But they just switch it out at the end with a different unit. ?
TI 99/4a and the voice module!!!! My ish as a kid!! Do you want to hear something wild? I am VERY familiar with top guitar gear with tubes: I mean like power amps and not just guitar amps, like MESA Simulclass 290 and the like, and have heard them in action live a million times. I never heard a hifi tube amp in action in my life. To me, that is a wild fact! I DO have very very good emulator running for all audio out of my PC to the MOTU to the Sony. Now I know what you're thinking: emulator, sure. No, no - today's emulation is basically nobody not even God can tell the difference and if one says he or she can,they are lying. Biggest productions and shows in the world make use of them today, even.
It's easy to emulate the sound of tubes and they get it very close. Most people won't be able to tell the difference. A cheap tube buffer into a class d amp sounds the same though and the real tube adds something that no emulation can, microphonics.
@@12voltvids I hear that. Yes, true. I get in front of my 4x12 all the time for that exact purpose, but I play so loud that I don't even have to. I have it all under control and that is easier said than done for others I imagine. Currently, I am using Softube Harmonics Analog Saturation processor for the tube emulation. They are a VST company and well regarded in the industry. I mix the result in parallel about 30%. On a scale of 1-10, about 4.85 for a hint of warm.
So if I understand it right, you were fired for following orders? Surely there's more to it, right? Do you think the Sony or Panasonic 3/4" units were any better or worse than the other?
I was shown the door for doing what i was told because my supervisor didnt have the balls to admit that he told me to do it. He was a c-hair himself from being canned so he threw me under the bus. His day having a chat with the bug boss was a few years later when he too was escorted out of the building. I wasn't actually fired on the spot, i was informed that i wasn't going to get the full time position that was open at the time. The supervisor that tossed me under the bus did stick a knife in my back and gave it a bit of a twist when i attempted to use that place as a reference for another tv station. Broadcast is a shitty business. If you piss someone off they tell all their friends and you find your name on a blacklist. The film business is no different.
@@12voltvids That sounds an awful lot like an extrusion job in that respect. I had a VO-4800 with the leather case, myself. I really liked that one, except for the unique tape size. There's a video of me recording Star Trek back when I was like 18. Looking at these massive guys, especially the Panasonic editor you've got, are these 3/4" machines the heaviest VCRs you've ever seen or heard of?
@@KlonoaTorqueBow I have a vo4800 with portabrace case. The nv9800 is the heaviest machine I have for sure. The ampex 1" machines at the station however were much heavier. Several hundred lbs.
DVD recorder preserves the bandwidth of analog video, retaining the look. Computer processing hasn't quite gotten there. There's a huge difference between MPEG2 DVD video and a computer processed MP4 h.264 conversion. The best I've seen is high bandwidth TH-cam on a Dish Network Hopper box.
@@theannoyedmrfloyd3998 I was going to say the same thing. Dvd looks superior to capturing on computer. Going to DV tape is slightly better but not by much compared to the 60 minute dvd speed. Remember dvd at 60 minute speed is 10 megs per second mpg2 ipb. DV tape is 25 megs per second I frame only which is not as efficient. The big problem with analog video is the noise, the noise is random and also needs to be compressed and going to something like MP4 you run out of bed with real quick when you factor in the noise and the picture falls apart. MP4 is great for a nice clean digital sources that don't have noise. But when you're dealing with noisy analog signals MP4 looks like crap and going directly to DVD looks Superior. These standalone DVD recorders have much better encoders than those cheap PC dongles.
As to the ti computer I do intend to fire that up one of these days I'm looking for the power adapter. I also have to make up the video out cable which shouldn't be that difficult as it's just a five pin din plug. I like to see if I can get that expansion unit working as well. It has disk drive controller for 360k double-sided double density disc drive but they've been robbed and put in something else probably a PC back in the day I'm sure I still have some kicking around though, it also has the 32k memory expansion yes 32k of memory plus the 16k built-in for a whopping 48k wow. It also has the serial parallel interface card and I had it hooked to a modem it actually running a BBs way back in the day. I wrote the software for the BBS and another guy that was in our TI user group wrote an ex modem 17 in assembler so we can upload and download files remotely it was amazing what that little computer could do back in 1982.
@@theannoyedmrfloyd3998 My old Hauppauge cards (both internal PCI and external USB2) with hardware encoders look great. They're substantially better than the cheap USB devices I also have.
I had the same thing happen to me… except I was praised for removing the master record beta cam tape, as it was worth an entire week of online editing time!
@@tekvax The tape wasn't saved. It was trashed. All chewed up. I was canned as I was an operator, not an engineer and the engineer took exception to me stepping on his toes.
I had been studying and tinkering with electronics since I was 7. I would, during down time hang around the cheif engineers shop. This pissed him off. He wouldn't show me anything but the other engineers would. I learned alot from them but Leo, the top guy was very secretive. When the vtr ate the tape i was ready to shut down because the backup machine was out of service and my direct supervisor told me to try carefully removing they tape. I did that and the engineer found out and had me canned. It was either I go or he would quit. Within 1 month of leaving he turned in his notice and retired. He moved back east to be closer to his family and opened his own electronics repair shop. Leo was a brilliant engineer but he I think he felt threatened by guys like me that understood the equipment and could get things working without having to call him. I was paid a fraction of what he made, so naturally he didn't want someone undercutting him.
@@12voltvids As engineers we should always be willing to pass on our knowledge to future generations, lest we end up in a world where nobody knows how to fix anything. We're all getting older now and hopefully our knowledge will not be lost to history.
Actually it is all in one end. All the old gear stacked up. I never go there unless I have a reason. There is heat in there to prevent it from freezing in the winter months. I may venture in there a few times a month. The scrap boards and equipment should all be hauled away because most of it will never ever be used. This is especially true for. Boards i grabbed out if old chassis heading off to recycling. I grabbed power supplies for things like MOSFETs and high speed diodes but in reality i will probably never use them. They are all in boxes you didn't see but there are about a half dozen boxes full of boards. Most will be gone real soon as i am clearing junk out of there pretty much every time I go there.
He has been banned by the abuseIPDB and I am sure that his complaints fall on deaf ears at TH-cam. I know my ISP has blocked him (I know because i work for the ISP and know the guy's in the security side and his antihot**** email goes in the bin. I am sure the same happens at Google. Even the "love letters" he sends me end up in the bin. I get notifications that messages from him have been blocked. So he is just wasting Google's bandwidth sending them.
Johny shithead is a troll. Probably the same person that made a fake Facebook page using my picture and tried to swindle people of money and getting them to invest in fake stocks. All I can say to anyone that Fe for it is too bad so sad. I don't use Facebook and anyone pretending to be me is a fraud. for the record i am not active on Facebook and do not use messenger. I only use BBM enterprise which is a subscription only encrypted message app. Anyone pretending to be me on any other message app is a fraud. Fall for it? Sucks to be you, I am not responsible for any of that shit. You have been warned.
Yeah Fox that guy! Keep those videos coming! Your videos are great! 👍
Keep them coming Dave alot of us enjoy.
Great trip down Memory Lane - Thanks! Cheers - B.
You have so many great stories and videos! Make three a day! And they said the cave of wonders does not exist. That Panasonic is a beast.
Thanks for the museum tour! Cool stuff!
Hi from the UK! Churn out as many videos as you like - I enjoy them all.
Great show. I'm a former TI 99-4/A user and cable TV volunteer whos transferring lots of old tapes. Now I want some 3/4" gear.
Keep the videos coming. You’re a good teacher, and help a lot of people.
I wish there were more people of your caliber and intelligence doing this.
That Sony deck is sweet. Thing looks like it's built like a frickin' tank!
Also... that 8MB SIMM for $102 may seem insane, but honestly, that must be quite late in the era because I remember my dad shelling out over $350 for four 1MB sticks like that for our 386DX40... 8MB for $102 is a steal! =D
Damn straight buddy! Back in 1993 I paid UK £100 for 4Mb (4x 30-pin, 1Mb SIMMs) (plus the obligatory 20% tax on top, plus another UK £10 postage, so UK £130 in total for 4Mb of 70ns RAM - not sure what the exchange rate was like back then, but by today's rate, that would be $222.93 Canadian ! O_O )
So like you said, 8Mb for $102 is a real bargain!
Oooh I remember 1990's when i working with a editing station with 2 Sony U-matic dubbing audio track to translate originals tapes in english, to spanish, from a Teac 8 trk mixer and a 8 Trk Tascam 48. Great days for me
I really enjoy Your videos, and I watch them all. Old technician myself.. Greetings from Norway!
Why would anyone be annoyed because you upload two videos in one day? People are nuts, I love your videos, I could be hours watching them
You can't fix crazy.
Once you're done with the TI computer you might want to send it to Adrian Black of Adrian's Digital Basement. That's up his alley and he has repaired a number of those before.
Nice collection of stuff there
That’s a cool historic video of Mingus. Please get it archived!
Uh, yeah. It looks absolutely riveting =D
Foxin great vidéo Dave!
LOL love your videos, publish as many a day as you can :)
Fun stuff, Dave.
You took me down memory lane being camera op, having a vcr op & sound op. Interesting how you archive. Might be the way I need to go with DV - as my dv gear doesnt want to talk to win 10. Thanks for making this.
Brings back memories of my youth in community TV in Ontario in the late 90s. We moved from uMatic to DVCPro almost overnight.
Great vid, thanks.
Maybe Johnny should go into storage with other tossed stuff ,We enjoy ur video's and appreciate the time you take to show us your high tech repairs experience and knowledge.
Johny shithead files privacy complaints if i mention his screen name. He keeps trying to post but he is banned and every time he tries a new screen name he gets banned there too. Reminds me of by sysop days. Easier to ban the trolls in the dial up days as I could just ban their phone number and then they had to change their number if they wanted back online.
A nice old video format, and some Mingus too? This is my kind of TH-cam!
Please keep the videos coming.
Awesome machine, u got to restore it! 👍👍👍
I use to have one of those Panasonic machines, and use to repair those porta pak machine too! They had a real touchy dew sensor, if memory serves me correctly. And yes they were ridiculously heavy!!
You still got that one guy pissing about how often a video shows up? Jeez.
He's a nut. Hope the covid takes care of him.
@@12voltvids BAHAHAHAHAHA 🤣👏 period
Still got one old Sony Umatic player, who knows, it might still work. Used it to copy some old master tapes to SVHS so they could be used as dubbing masters. the rerst were Betacam, so were eent out to be played, and the SVHS tapes were then copied to another, before the final stage of making VHS copies. As the copy machines had stereo they all got a stereo track, though with the Umatic you actually had 2 channel audio, one with and one without music. Those went as mono, selecting to mix the channels instead.
I did wear out quite a few head drums on the copy machines, but the nice thing about National is they all had auto loaders, so you could do a set of 6 tapes all at a single session, and leave it unattended for the time.
Did have to build a controller for it, the original was made by messrs Heath and Robinson, and abused 555 timers and electrolytic capacitors in order to get multiple minute delays. Took an old 386sx motherboard, one HGC controller with built in parallel port, and wrote some GWBasic to act as a simple sequencer. Fitted the entire lot on one diskette, and made a second copy of it as well as backup. Do still have the machine in the garage, but no HGC monitor to use with it any more, but it likely still works. Used 2 Panasonic wired remote control boards, one for the recorders and one for the player, so they all responded to stop, forward, reverse together, but only the player could emulate play, and only the recorders could emulate record and eject. Parallel port open collector outputs (predated EPP by a lot) and the recorder had external switch inputs plus switches on the board, all pulling to ground, plus also ran off 5V.
I never worry if people want to upload multiple videos. I'm good at scrolling 😂
What is crazy, is subscribing, then bitching about it 🤷
It was probably some millennial who watches YT on his phone instead of a real computer :)
For some reason my university's media department was still using U-Matic SP as their primary format into the late 90s. When I asked why not Betacam SP or one of the DV formats, their response was "this is what media services orders". By 2003 they were on DVCPro with all Panasonic gear so I guess they switched not too long after that!
The community station I work for when I started there most of the stuff was done on Ampex a format 1-in tape. Then they got some 3/4 decks, the exact Panasonic model that I have here was one of them, after I left I understand they went to beta SP and that was mainly because their sister company which was a commercial production house was using beta. Then they went to DCcam and then I have no idea because I haven't been there in 38 years at my friends that work there of all since left. I don't even think they do any programming anymore out here the cable company was bought out by EastLink and I think they got rid of all their local production although I could be wrong but I just don't see the truck around like I used to they had this big truck for their mobile production and I haven't seen it for years.
Jazz Video Guy on TH-cam would probably love to get his hands on this old historic jazz tape.
The client I am archiving this for will likely be posting it to his TH-cam channel. It's great that these legends have been recorded.
Neat! I'm interested in the gear you mentioned in a video how you were broadcasting TV over ham. I have a few blonder tongue agile RF modulators and a view-teq vtm-12cpc. I really want to figure out how to either broadcast that clearQAM OTA or take the modulators out of the rack with the combiner and use them to xmit stuff in my RV park. (posted on the auto play next video, meant to do it here, sorry)
love your videos
I',m dedicating this video to those whom absolutely hate high worker productivity. Enjoy and fudge you guys.
I have old Commodore Vic 20 still working, my first P.C
I picked up a Sony Transound CFS-4000 boombox at a thrift store. Pretty beaten up, seemed to be someone's garage radio. But it works!
I've got one of those U-matics that I'm trying to get working. I've been frustrated by the loading and unloading not working so well. one of these days I'll find some belts that fit.
Keep those videos coming! As for your storage dungeon, do you offer guided tours?
I get lost in there. It will probably be empty by the end of the summer. I am dumping stuff constantly and no new stuff is being added.
Hello , liebe Grüße aus Germany . Tolle Videos ...
You keep posting great content. Simple folk can only cope watching so much every day and then the brain tends to get mushy.
I am surprised you capture to Memorex discs and DVD format.
There are are amazing little devices available now for grabbing composite video right to a memory card in a box the size of a pack of smokes..
Most of my clients want a physical copy on dvd. 8 out of 10 want a dvd. They can then import to a computer.
@@12voltvids which presumable means encoding to dvd first and then someone would rip the dvd and re encode again, unless of course you burn as data to disc.
Some people! It seems DVD is alive and well in the USA, in the UK all I see is mp4 or mkv on USB devices.
It's rare to hear of people wanting DVD over here as a first choice.
@@Super8Rescue
I get requests for tapes archives to usb and then they complain that the quality isn't good enough and they come back and get it on dvd. Many times when they want on usb, i record to DVD-RW then rip as .mpg and hand that to them on usb stick. Quality superior. Then i wipe yhe DVD-RW and use again. That's why I was recording these to dvd-rw. Also so that if the tape screws up I don't make a coaster. In this case the DVD RW was copied to a DVD-R and then the RW disc reused. I find the quality is better going direct to DVD then capturing on computer and it's faster. Some clients want an Avi on a hard drive and for that I just captured direct with my Sony DV capture device. Quality wise that has a slightly better picture but not by much. It also burns up 12 gigs per hour.
@@12voltvids oh yes, 12gb an hour, I remember that from doing one or two VHS to usb on my laptop. yikes.
@@12voltvids I just did all of our old family VHS and 8MM tapes recently. JVC SR-V10U S-VHS > Panasonic DVD recorder (for comb filter and external TBC for some problem tapes) > retro AGP build PC with an ATI all-in-wonder card > VirtualDUB with per-tape optimized levels > Lagarith (lossless). You want to talk about big files... haha. Those raw captures were archived to LTO3 tape. From there, post processing: noise reduction, deinterlacing, cropping, scaling. End results encoded to H.264 and burned to BD-DLs and uploaded to TH-cam.
Never seen anything like this before.
That looks like a good old machine to me, maybe one day you will give the mechanism a clean and give the belts a boil treatment.
That recording was not so bad, it's watchable.
The random noise might have been smoothed by the act of making a copy to dvd, there is always h.f loss.
I know about recording data to cassette, Sinclair zx81, zx spectrum 48/128k.
The average game took 3-4 mins to load, and sometimes it crashed at the end.
Later i got a mgt diskdrive interface, 2-3 seconds lol.
Nice panasonic tape recorder :-D
I still have an better time playing 40 year old umatic tapes than I do playing 20 year old betacam tapes
In a few years that 8Mb of RAM will be worth $102 again!
Chip shortage.
@@12voltvids Still got a bag of old RAM, some of it still is SIP modules.....
@@SeanBZA Wow that's impressive! I still have a handful of 30-pin SIMMs but I haven't encountered a SIP for a very long time now :)
My Sony U-matic VP 5020 is till holding on for dear life
Cool stuff man
That 8MB RAM is a bargain really. 4MB harddisks were once thousands of dollars.
I have a 9 gig drive that I paid 4500 for and another 500 for the Adaptec UW SCSI controller it required.
That ram price was probably around when there was the "fire" in Taiwan memory factory. late 90's
I remember that "fire"
@@12voltvids my old boss made a truck load of money as we sold ram sticks
I don't mind it 1 bit ( or 0 ) how often you take us exploring with you in your back room! Thanks.
I too have alot of old electronics ETC in Storage, May need to get rid of some Due to health reasons but yet its hard to get rid of stuff one had a long time, plus really not Many buyers around here any More.the good thing, guess its good to know i'm not the only one hoarding old Electronics, i used to like Working on stuff, but have not been Since my Health isn't as good as it used to be,I too have alot of the same types of things like you have, but mine is mostly VCRs and stuff and DVD players etc, a few older Receivers in the mix along with other odds and ends that some day gonna need go through again.
Where do you think many of the repair projects come from. All those VCRs or at least most were from my tape duplication days. There are also boxes of VHS and beta tapes that i need to go through and archive what I want to keep and then bulk erase and dump the rest. Just never have time to sit down and go through them.
At what point do you stop calling it a belt and start calling it a lubricant? Love all the AV equipment.
Always clicking all @12voltvids
Have you seen the fake restore videos where people find stereos or boombox in the mudd and then claim to restore it. But they just switch it out at the end with a different unit. ?
wait are you talking about that one asian youtuber who finds stuff in literal mud and then cleans it all off?
@@walle637 Yes
I hate those fake restore videos
Nice
I love your videos sir thanks I used to fix vcr and TVs , do you still have customers use this equipment ? By the way love the record player
Is that head drum belt driven?
That beast the drum is direct. The capstan and reel are belt. I don't use this old beast anymore as I have a 2 newer machines.
TI 99/4a and the voice module!!!! My ish as a kid!! Do you want to hear something wild? I am VERY familiar with top guitar gear with tubes: I mean like power amps and not just guitar amps, like MESA Simulclass 290 and the like, and have heard them in action live a million times. I never heard a hifi tube amp in action in my life. To me, that is a wild fact! I DO have very very good emulator running for all audio out of my PC to the MOTU to the Sony. Now I know what you're thinking: emulator, sure. No, no - today's emulation is basically nobody not even God can tell the difference and if one says he or she can,they are lying. Biggest productions and shows in the world make use of them today, even.
It's easy to emulate the sound of tubes and they get it very close. Most people won't be able to tell the difference. A cheap tube buffer into a class d amp sounds the same though and the real tube adds something that no emulation can, microphonics.
@@12voltvids I hear that. Yes, true. I get in front of my 4x12 all the time for that exact purpose, but I play so loud that I don't even have to. I have it all under control and that is easier said than done for others I imagine. Currently, I am using Softube Harmonics Analog Saturation processor for the tube emulation. They are a VST company and well regarded in the industry. I mix the result in parallel about 30%. On a scale of 1-10, about 4.85 for a hint of warm.
So if I understand it right, you were fired for following orders? Surely there's more to it, right?
Do you think the Sony or Panasonic 3/4" units were any better or worse than the other?
I was shown the door for doing what i was told because my supervisor didnt have the balls to admit that he told me to do it. He was a c-hair himself from being canned so he threw me under the bus. His day having a chat with the bug boss was a few years later when he too was escorted out of the building. I wasn't actually fired on the spot, i was informed that i wasn't going to get the full time position that was open at the time. The supervisor that tossed me under the bus did stick a knife in my back and gave it a bit of a twist when i attempted to use that place as a reference for another tv station. Broadcast is a shitty business. If you piss someone off they tell all their friends and you find your name on a blacklist. The film business is no different.
As far as the 3/4 gear i used there the only Sony recorder was a vo4800 and the studio machines were Panasonic nv9800 and 9850.
@@12voltvids That sounds an awful lot like an extrusion job in that respect.
I had a VO-4800 with the leather case, myself. I really liked that one, except for the unique tape size. There's a video of me recording Star Trek back when I was like 18.
Looking at these massive guys, especially the Panasonic editor you've got, are these 3/4" machines the heaviest VCRs you've ever seen or heard of?
@@KlonoaTorqueBow I have a vo4800 with portabrace case. The nv9800 is the heaviest machine I have for sure. The ampex 1" machines at the station however were much heavier. Several hundred lbs.
Some really nice gear, would love to see if the TI works. Out of curiosity, why use a DVD recorder and not a computer with a capture card?
DVD recorder preserves the bandwidth of analog video, retaining the look. Computer processing hasn't quite gotten there. There's a huge difference between MPEG2 DVD video and a computer processed MP4 h.264 conversion. The best I've seen is high bandwidth TH-cam on a Dish Network Hopper box.
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I was going to say the same thing. Dvd looks superior to capturing on computer. Going to DV tape is slightly better but not by much compared to the 60 minute dvd speed. Remember dvd at 60 minute speed is 10 megs per second mpg2 ipb. DV tape is 25 megs per second I frame only which is not as efficient. The big problem with analog video is the noise, the noise is random and also needs to be compressed and going to something like MP4 you run out of bed with real quick when you factor in the noise and the picture falls apart. MP4 is great for a nice clean digital sources that don't have noise. But when you're dealing with noisy analog signals MP4 looks like crap and going directly to DVD looks Superior. These standalone DVD recorders have much better encoders than those cheap PC dongles.
As to the ti computer I do intend to fire that up one of these days I'm looking for the power adapter. I also have to make up the video out cable which shouldn't be that difficult as it's just a five pin din plug.
I like to see if I can get that expansion unit working as well. It has disk drive controller for 360k double-sided double density disc drive but they've been robbed and put in something else probably a PC back in the day I'm sure I still have some kicking around though, it also has the 32k memory expansion yes 32k of memory plus the 16k built-in for a whopping 48k wow. It also has the serial parallel interface card and I had it hooked to a modem it actually running a BBs way back in the day. I wrote the software for the BBS and another guy that was in our TI user group wrote an ex modem 17 in assembler so we can upload and download files remotely it was amazing what that little computer could do back in 1982.
@@theannoyedmrfloyd3998 My old Hauppauge cards (both internal PCI and external USB2) with hardware encoders look great. They're substantially better than the cheap USB devices I also have.
What?
You've got some jagoff complaining that you're publishing more videos than he wants you to?
Who does he think he is? Screw him!
Nice collection. Why would you get sacked for saving a tape?
union vs non union employee ??
I had the same thing happen to me… except I was praised for removing the master record beta cam tape, as it was worth an entire week of online editing time!
@@tekvax The tape wasn't saved. It was trashed. All chewed up. I was canned as I was an operator, not an engineer and the engineer took exception to me stepping on his toes.
What? No Victrola?
Actually i did have one but I had an offer for it about 20 years ago that i could not pass up on.
You kinda glossed right over the I got fired over part what happened? Cliff hanger? life lessons...
I had been studying and tinkering with electronics since I was 7. I would, during down time hang around the cheif engineers shop. This pissed him off. He wouldn't show me anything but the other engineers would. I learned alot from them but Leo, the top guy was very secretive. When the vtr ate the tape i was ready to shut down because the backup machine was out of service and my direct supervisor told me to try carefully removing they tape. I did that and the engineer found out and had me canned. It was either I go or he would quit. Within 1 month of leaving he turned in his notice and retired. He moved back east to be closer to his family and opened his own electronics repair shop. Leo was a brilliant engineer but he I think he felt threatened by guys like me that understood the equipment and could get things working without having to call him. I was paid a fraction of what he made, so naturally he didn't want someone undercutting him.
@@12voltvids As engineers we should always be willing to pass on our knowledge to future generations, lest we end up in a world where nobody knows how to fix anything. We're all getting older now and hopefully our knowledge will not be lost to history.
And I though my storage unit is messy.
Actually it is all in one end. All the old gear stacked up. I never go there unless I have a reason. There is heat in there to prevent it from freezing in the winter months. I may venture in there a few times a month. The scrap boards and equipment should all be hauled away because most of it will never ever be used. This is especially true for. Boards i grabbed out if old chassis heading off to recycling. I grabbed power supplies for things like MOSFETs and high speed diodes but in reality i will probably never use them. They are all in boxes you didn't see but there are about a half dozen boxes full of boards. Most will be gone real soon as i am clearing junk out of there pretty much every time I go there.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Luxman hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
You spotted my luxman. Restored and recapped it last year.
All JS does is come on videos and troll people. Not sure why TH-cam lets him continue posting.
He has been banned by the abuseIPDB and I am sure that his complaints fall on deaf ears at TH-cam. I know my ISP has blocked him (I know because i work for the ISP and know the guy's in the security side and his antihot**** email goes in the bin. I am sure the same happens at Google. Even the "love letters" he sends me end up in the bin. I get notifications that messages from him have been blocked. So he is just wasting Google's bandwidth sending them.
Why would anyone complain that you put more content on?..funny old world! Just don’t watch the channel. Problem solved...
Johny shithead is a troll. Probably the same person that made a fake Facebook page using my picture and tried to swindle people of money and getting them to invest in fake stocks. All I can say to anyone that Fe for it is too bad so sad. I don't use Facebook and anyone pretending to be me is a fraud. for the record i am not active on Facebook and do not use messenger.
I only use BBM enterprise which is a subscription only encrypted message app. Anyone pretending to be me on any other message app is a fraud. Fall for it? Sucks to be you, I am not responsible for any of that shit. You have been warned.
@@12voltvids Grrr. So, Dale Gribble is a real person.