A montage of Ampex's amazing history since the company started in 1944. Stuffed with some fascinating clips of classic Ampex equipment in action.. + Informações

This documentary lifts the lid off the recording industry. Well alright, maybe it doesn't lift the lid, but Steve Newton does open a few cover plates and show what's inside.. + Informações

Close-up of the Ampex VPR-3 videotape recorder. You'll see threading and operation of the fastest 1" VTR ever made. If you need a dub from 1", let me know.. + Informações

A year after I left Molinare, I was commissioned to make a promotional video for Ampex. For a change I had a decent budget, which accounts for the numerous tracking shots. For the primary shoot I hired John Henshall and his crew. Later I went back and did pickup shots myself. The aggressive library music was chosen by Cameron Shaw, who also did the sound mix. I off-lined the edit on U-Matic to a mixed track. The on-line was performed by Phil Stone at VTR facilities. Voice over is David Tate using his "trans-Atlantic" voice. Computer graphics from Sam Burford using an Ampex Cubicomp system. The red headed guy in the video thumbnail is Stuart English, now in charge of fun at RED cameras. As I wasn't shooting, I keep appearing in shot - notably sitting next to the smoking blonde in the edit suite, the video editor,Martin Stretton, is also smoking. How things have changed. Originally 12 minutes - cut to 10 to meet YouTube requirements. On March 30, 2008, Ampex Corp. filed for Chapter 11 protection.. + Informações

The Ampex (Colombia) Album: Anthology.. + Informações

Seqence showing VT4 at Central TV Birmingham playing opening of Central news Early 1982. + Informações

Just so you don't bungle anything up in front of that hot new client... don't forget who saved your ass!. + Informações

My working AMPEX VPR3. Some waveforms like RF ENVELOPE, CONTROL TRACK, AST SERVO signals and also details of air system can be seen in this video.. + Informações

This is a 23 yo machine I documented in 1998.. + Informações

A quick demonstration of my highly configurable Ampex AG-440C. There's only one other video I've seen on this series so I thought I'd post one as well. Sorry for the poor audio. I threw this together very quickly. About the music. It's called "Destination" and is a part of a new project on which I'm working with a friend. Guitar is an SG run through a Vox AC-15. Drums are recorded with an overhead, large diaphragm condenser and a large diaphragm dynamic in front. It was recorded live with the guitar to a single track. Bass is a J-bass through a Kustom 250 and Ampeg SVT 15" cab with large diaphragm dynamic mic in front. There's also a Hammond M3 on a separate track, which can't really be heard here. Vocals are not yet recorded.. + Informações

Ampex 601 reel to reel suitcase 1/4inch tape recorder with tube pre amp. + Informações

Special effects you can do with the target framestore option of the Ampex Digital Optics.. + Informações

I took this video footage of my MM-1000 after I took it out to rebuild the power supply. Listen to those relays. Watch those reels spin round. Ahhh, you can almost smell that distinct odor of a warm Ampex! Enjoy.. + Informações

The last upload did not include all the audio. Here is another try with different compression. Ultrafurb Merlin Ampex 1200B. Here is a look at threading and starting playback from many different angles. Then, some segments from local old 70s commercials. If you need a dub from 2" quad, let me now.. + Informações

AMPEX 440C reel to reel recorder. + Informações

Ampex demo of their "new" D-2 format VTR, the VPR-300. Interviews with industry leaders who have adopted this format talk about its strengths. D-2 was a great leap forward in video quality. Much better pictures than 1" Type "C", which was the current leading broadcast format at the time. It offered "read before write" or "pre-read" where you could insert over material already recorded on tape. It offered simultaneous playback and recording on the same VTR. D-2 was introduced in 1988. D-2 used 19 mm (¾ inch) metal particle tape. Need a dub from D-2 or D-3? Contact me.. + Informações

A short demo of the speed and power of the fastest 1" video recorder ever made. Sit back and keep your hands away from the spinning reels! If you need a dub from 1", let me know. See also www.youtube.com. + Informações

Robert W. Day: Growing up in Depression-weary Oakland, California, Bob Day worked a variety of jobs to help the family, but he soon found he had an unusual gift for radio. Even as a young man, his rich bass voice commanded attention and his ability to "rip-and-read" with ease moved him ahead of more senior announcers. A familiar figure in Bay Area radio during the 1950s, he hosted KGO-TV's "San Francisco Sketchbook," and later the popular "Success Story" series on live television. After that show's Ampex episode, he was lured away from broadcasting to introduce the video tape recorder with a nationwide tour in the "Ampex Video Cruiser," a 40-ft custom bus with cameras, the video tape machine, a crew of ten people and five-thousand vacuum tubes. As the voice of Ampex, Bob Day continued as corporate story-teller, using television produced on video tape -"teleproduction"- on and off the Ampex campus for the next 35 years. Many of today's production techniques were pioneered a quarter-century ago by Day trying to tell a fresh story in the competition- charged cauldron of NAB's four-day grind. Techniques such as interactive video, quick-cut editing, synchronized multi-screen presentations... were pioneered in analog with just a typewriter, a stopwatch and what George Bush would later call "the vision thing!" His brand of story-telling, which began on radio as just a voice in the dark, went on to illuminate television's transition from "staged" to "stored" images. It is widely .... + Informações

Please view in 1080p fullscreen AND thumbUP if you like ;-) HQ-Version: vimeo.com There is a lack of transients in UA's official Ampex ATR-102 trailer, so I´ve quickly compiled this video including audio material with lots of peaks to be rounded out. Please keep in mind that this is just zapping through presets, most of which where created for mixing and not for mastering and have not been finetuned to suit this actual mix. Only the very first setting "Default +3dB" was edited to fit the music - the other settings are just to show off, in what directions the emulation could change your music. I had no time to include closed captions, so please view fullscreen in 1080p or at least 720p to see what´s going on!. + Informações

AMPEX VPR-3 ast video head replacing (DT video head) and AST SERVO board setup.. + Informações

One of the first big studio recorders. This one was purchased new in 1973 by Don Cedarstrom of Custom Recording and Sound in Boise Idaho. Don, incidentally, did some of the early recording for Paul Revere and the Raiders in Boise in the 60s. I purchased the recorder from Don in 1997. It is a great deck but in the late 90s personal computers became powerful enough to start being considered as a recording platform, so I have only used this great old deck on a few projects. I also show a owners manual and a first edition copy of Runstein's Modern Recording Techniques which features this recorder, among other, and is a great resource for professional recording, and was first printed in 1974. An interesting note about that edition of the book is that in the section covering noise reduction Runstein discuses what was then a new noise reduction technology, that is, digital recording. It is a great historical look at the foundational causes of why digital audio supplanted analogue. To see and even older recorder check this out: youtube.com. + Informações

An Ampex 2 inch Quadruplex video machine at NAB. I used to work on these. Amazing how things have changed.. + Informações

Primeiro videoclipe da banda Ampex, dirigido e editado pelos alunos da cadeira de Vídeo Digital 04/2009 de Tecnologias Digitais.. + Informações

I would love to get an Ampex 300 like this but have not found a portable yet, this recorder was a budget machine just after the 300 and before the 350, the high end is not great but the tape is running 17% slower (UK 50Hz, USA 60Hz).. + Informações

Introducing the Ampex ATR-102 Mastering Tape Recorder plug-in for UAD-2. In this short video, you'll see (and hear) side-by-side hardware to plug-in comparisons, as well as testimonials from artists and engineers on one of the most beloved two-track tape machines ever made. For more information, visit www.uaudio.com. + Informações