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Like this Ampex recreation I love to use with my Apollo and Luna:
https://www.uaudio.com/uad-plugins/luna-custom/ampex-atr-102...
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"it's the stuff dreams are made of"! also, flight of the navigator is an amazing movie https://archive.org/details/FlightOfTheNavigator1986
There's a great breakdown of the special effects that were done on a shoestring for that movie. I recommend doing a search for it.
It’s by Captain Disillusion, probably the YouTube creator with the highest continual quality.
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There's a great breakdown of the special effects that were done on a shoestring for that movie. I recommend doing a search for it.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tyixMpuGEL8 It’s by Captain Disillusion, probably the YouTube creator with the highest continual quality.
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If there was surface noise it probably wasn't Hi-Fi. Hi-Fi recorded the audio as FM on the tape alongside the video signal, if I remember correctly. I was overdubbing with my setup and discovered that the shitty Tascam four-track had speed variations all through the song, on every take. I had to memorize where they occurred and ride the pitch control while copying to the VHS. It took days, and by the time I had an ac…
>Hi-Fi recorded the audio as FM on the tape alongside the video signal, if I remember correctly. So they broke the format when HiFi came out, tapes recorded on a HiFi VCR could not be played on a pre-HiFi one? Something like that may have happened but if it did it happened back during the early days of the format. From what I remember HiFi just meant it had RCA outs which bypassed the internal RF modulator that was u…
And no, they did not break the tape formats. Beta Hi-Fi came out in the early '80s and VHS Hi-Fi followed a couple years later. From Wikipedia:
"Around 1984, JVC added Hi-Fi audio to VHS (model HR-D725U, in response to Betamax's introduction of Beta Hi-Fi.) Both VHS Hi-Fi and Betamax Hi-Fi delivered flat full-range frequency response (20 Hz to 20 kHz), excellent 70 dB signal-to-noise ratio (in consumer space, second only to the compact disc), dynamic range of 90 dB, and professional audio-grade channel separation (more than 70 dB). VHS Hi-Fi audio is achieved by using audio frequency modulation (AFM), modulating the two stereo channels (L, R) on two different frequency-modulated carriers and embedding the combined modulated audio signal pair into the video signal. To avoid crosstalk and interference from the primary video carrier, VHS's implementation of AFM relied on a form of magnetic recording called depth multiplexing. The modulated audio carrier pair was placed in the hitherto-unused frequency range between the luminance and the color carrier (below 1.6 MHz), and recorded first. Subsequently, the video head erases and re-records the video signal (combined luminance and color signal) over the same tape surface, but the video signal's higher center frequency results in a shallower magnetization of the tape, allowing both the video and residual AFM audio signal to coexist on tape."
I sold a decent number of HR-D725s where I worked in high school. You see very few products with its build quality today. I still have the original JVC promo tape that showcased the release of VHS Hi-Fi, featuring a voiceover by Don Adams (Get Smart).