AMPEX Miracles of Magnetic Recording

[@BILLY-px3hw]

Analog tape was so good we use simulated magnetic tape plug ins on our modern digital recordings

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

And I wish we could stop it.

[@RayPointerChannel]

The revolution of magnetic recording was not limited to just radio and records. It made a tremendous impact on the motion picture industry, which made the change from initial optical sound recordings, with magnetic striping made available for multi-channel theatrical playbacks for the spectacles of the 1950s.

[@AudioFileZ]

I think some of the greatest aspects of magnetic recording came together in the late seventies to early eighties when Nakamichi led the way to make one of the worst, fidelity-wise, magnetic tape mediums, the compact cassette, into a true high-fidelity medium. I get sad thinking it all stalled, then went so quickly away, with the rise of digital based recording and things like the CD. If the compact cassette, as a hi-fi medium, would have continued to evolve I'm sure by now it would be a jaw dropping miracle of fidelity.

[@edmatzenik9858]

One thing that hasn't changed since this doco was made - and it was already near to 20 years old then - is the Fender Precision bass. Still unrivaled.

[@nichtimmer9134]

6:13 rec studio 1:11 aeg k4 r22 mit hf vormagnetisierung. Die aeg k1 1935, Die k0 (prototyp) 1929, German engineer's introduced the tape rec in 1935 as aeg magnetophon k1.

[@dannydougin3925]

Wow Jim Lange and Vince Guaraldi! -- Jim Lange TV Host and Vince Guaraldi who wrote the score to so many Peanuts TV Specials! And Lee Mendelson also worked on Peanuts TV Specials.

[@timmulder9112]

Wow, I just bought a Ampex ax 300 reel to reel in excellent condition. I've been listening to the Animals with Eric burdon, blood sweat and tears, BJ Thomas- raindrops keep falling on head, Frank Sinatra's greatest hits. It sounds fantastic!!

[@prabhakarv4193]

Very nice and informative

[@williamjones7163]

I laughed at the "Modern" teletype. We used those backing 1978 in high school.

[@theonl1128]

Interesting video, but very bad sound. 😢

[@nibiruresearch]

Ampex made great machines but suddenly they were lost when Sony came up with the Betacam cassettes. These machines needed no alignment and could easely be operated by lower educated technisians. Sony continuate with the digital betacam and the very small DAT recorders that could even sinchronise themselves to external timecode..

[@analoguecity3454]

Digital has really ruined audio recording! Although it's MUCH MUCH better these days with DSD and MQA, but the signal is is never the same after you digitize it no matter how high the resolution, but like I said it comes very close these days! They don't (in my opinion) measure analogue recordings correctly! They don't measure below the noise floor, which we all can filter out with our brains!

[@DSL-33166]

The medium is the message

[@megwatts1903]

The irony is the rather crappy sound of the publicity spot....

[@oldgoody1]

It's not great but the original magnetic sound recording would have been fine. This is a 16mm film optical sound copy of it which was never as good even when new. The 16mm print is also unfortunately very faded.

[@ampex352]

1970

[@dannydougin3925]

Again .... answered ..... do other not read all the comments??