[Avid-L2] Re: Way back machine... quiz for the 'early adopters' over 50...

Geez the 5800 was a super fancy front loader. Try VO-2850 and 60 that had to be modifyed for Convergent ECS-90 control. The trick was to manually torque up the reverse play take up tension so it roughly matched the tentelometer reading of fwd play. Real subtle, bend the tension spring on the idler wheel thingy a couple notches tighter and voila you had better pre roll accuracy. At least that's what I convinced myself when I heard less ping ponging during edits. I too learned most of my time code knowledge analyzing the FLA mod boards to accommodate 3/4 tapes recorded without framing servos to properly align control track to time code/fields.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@...> wrote:
>
> I was about to say that I thought the 5800 was U-matic. Talk about a
> wayback machine...
>
> Reminds me of the time someone told me the deck wouldn't accept the
> size tape she had. Back then, there weren't that many tape sizes and I
> couldn't understand what size tape wouldn't fit in the deck... Turns
> out she was trying to load it before taking the tape out of its
> case... :-(
>
> On Oct 30, 2009, at 11:56 PM, Bouke wrote:
>
> > Dude,
> > That was U-matic.
> > (I've worked with those as well, and even type II, the whole reason
> > i've
> > developed a sick love for TC comes from those days..)
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

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