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Any News on the Status of Emtec?
Just wondering...I was gonna convert from 499 but held off, I'd still
like to but I'd like to see the company a bit more solvent. After Waldorf went down I got left holding the bag on a broken Q with no warranty (well the warranty is still in effect, the company isn't). Analogeezer |
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Analogeezer wrote:
Just wondering...I was gonna convert from 499 but held off, I'd still like to but I'd like to see the company a bit more solvent. My Quantegy rep tells me that they are totally fallen apart and there is no more production at all and that the stuff you see on shelves is trickling in from existing stock in Europe. The guy selling BASF stuff is telling me that there is no problem with production and now that they have switched over to a different distribution system (now that Emtec US is gone) that there will be no problems at all. Believe who you will. After Waldorf went down I got left holding the bag on a broken Q with no warranty (well the warranty is still in effect, the company isn't). The thing is that it takes half an hour to go from 499 to 468. It's just a quick machine realign. If you have a machine with daughter boards for the tape settings, you can keep two sets, one set up for each kind of tape and go from one to the other in a matter of minutes. You will have to do a record azimuth realignment when you go from 499 to 468, but you will (unless you have a 350 or some other unstable machine) find you don't need to realign azimuth anywhere near as often because the record azimuth settings from batch to batch of 468 are more consistent than they are with 499. Probably due to better slitting. --scott I miss Zonal. Hell, I miss 632 and I'm not even sure that has been discontinued. -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Analogeezer wrote:
Just wondering...I was gonna convert from 499 but held off, I'd still like to but I'd like to see the company a bit more solvent. My Quantegy rep tells me that they are totally fallen apart and there is no more production at all and that the stuff you see on shelves is trickling in from existing stock in Europe. The guy selling BASF stuff is telling me that there is no problem with production and now that they have switched over to a different distribution system (now that Emtec US is gone) that there will be no problems at all. Believe who you will. After Waldorf went down I got left holding the bag on a broken Q with no warranty (well the warranty is still in effect, the company isn't). The thing is that it takes half an hour to go from 499 to 468. It's just a quick machine realign. If you have a machine with daughter boards for the tape settings, you can keep two sets, one set up for each kind of tape and go from one to the other in a matter of minutes. You will have to do a record azimuth realignment when you go from 499 to 468, but you will (unless you have a 350 or some other unstable machine) find you don't need to realign azimuth anywhere near as often because the record azimuth settings from batch to batch of 468 are more consistent than they are with 499. Probably due to better slitting. --scott I miss Zonal. Hell, I miss 632 and I'm not even sure that has been discontinued. -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Scott Dorsey wrote:
The thing is that it takes half an hour to go from 499 to 468. It's just a quick machine realign. If you have a machine with daughter boards for the tape settings, you can keep two sets, one set up for each kind of tape and go from one to the other in a matter of minutes. That's the difference between a 2-track machine and a 16-track machine. ulysses |
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Scott Dorsey wrote:
The thing is that it takes half an hour to go from 499 to 468. It's just a quick machine realign. If you have a machine with daughter boards for the tape settings, you can keep two sets, one set up for each kind of tape and go from one to the other in a matter of minutes. That's the difference between a 2-track machine and a 16-track machine. ulysses |
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Justin Ulysses Morse wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote: The thing is that it takes half an hour to go from 499 to 468. It's just a quick machine realign. If you have a machine with daughter boards for the tape settings, you can keep two sets, one set up for each kind of tape and go from one to the other in a matter of minutes. That's the difference between a 2-track machine and a 16-track machine. Oh, come on, it's not that bad! A lot of the 16-track machines would let you adjust the master bias for all channels at the same time, too, so the only thing you had to do one channel at a time is the EQ. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Justin Ulysses Morse wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote: The thing is that it takes half an hour to go from 499 to 468. It's just a quick machine realign. If you have a machine with daughter boards for the tape settings, you can keep two sets, one set up for each kind of tape and go from one to the other in a matter of minutes. That's the difference between a 2-track machine and a 16-track machine. Oh, come on, it's not that bad! A lot of the 16-track machines would let you adjust the master bias for all channels at the same time, too, so the only thing you had to do one channel at a time is the EQ. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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"Analogeezer" wrote in message om... Just wondering...I was gonna convert from 499 but held off, I'd still like to but I'd like to see the company a bit more solvent. After Waldorf went down I got left holding the bag on a broken Q with no warranty (well the warranty is still in effect, the company isn't). Analogeezer I've written them twice per months in the past 60 days regarding pre-formatted ADAT tape availability and received no response. The word from my tape vendor is cloudy to say the least. I'm thinking it's bye-bye for their time in the tape business. -- David Morgan (MAMS) http://www.m-a-m-s.com Morgan Audio Media Service Dallas, Texas (214) 662-9901 _______________________________________ http://www.artisan-recordingstudio.com |
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"Analogeezer" wrote in message om... Just wondering...I was gonna convert from 499 but held off, I'd still like to but I'd like to see the company a bit more solvent. After Waldorf went down I got left holding the bag on a broken Q with no warranty (well the warranty is still in effect, the company isn't). Analogeezer I've written them twice per months in the past 60 days regarding pre-formatted ADAT tape availability and received no response. The word from my tape vendor is cloudy to say the least. I'm thinking it's bye-bye for their time in the tape business. -- David Morgan (MAMS) http://www.m-a-m-s.com Morgan Audio Media Service Dallas, Texas (214) 662-9901 _______________________________________ http://www.artisan-recordingstudio.com |
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Scott Dorsey wrote:
Justin Ulysses Morse wrote: Scott Dorsey wrote: The thing is that it takes half an hour to go from 499 to 468. It's just a quick machine realign. If you have a machine with daughter boards for the tape settings, you can keep two sets, one set up for each kind of tape and go from one to the other in a matter of minutes. That's the difference between a 2-track machine and a 16-track machine. Oh, come on, it's not that bad! A lot of the 16-track machines would let you adjust the master bias for all channels at the same time, too, so the only thing you had to do one channel at a time is the EQ. --scott Okay, but I'm not going to buy a spare set of cards for the MCI just so I can switch tape brands without recalibrating. I don't think it would work anyway. The amount of force needed to pull those cards out is more than the amount of gentle rocking of the machine needed to knock it out of alignment, I'm sure. ulysses |
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Scott Dorsey wrote:
Justin Ulysses Morse wrote: Scott Dorsey wrote: The thing is that it takes half an hour to go from 499 to 468. It's just a quick machine realign. If you have a machine with daughter boards for the tape settings, you can keep two sets, one set up for each kind of tape and go from one to the other in a matter of minutes. That's the difference between a 2-track machine and a 16-track machine. Oh, come on, it's not that bad! A lot of the 16-track machines would let you adjust the master bias for all channels at the same time, too, so the only thing you had to do one channel at a time is the EQ. --scott Okay, but I'm not going to buy a spare set of cards for the MCI just so I can switch tape brands without recalibrating. I don't think it would work anyway. The amount of force needed to pull those cards out is more than the amount of gentle rocking of the machine needed to knock it out of alignment, I'm sure. ulysses |
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Justin Ulysses Morse wrote:
Okay, but I'm not going to buy a spare set of cards for the MCI just so I can switch tape brands without recalibrating. I don't think it would work anyway. The amount of force needed to pull those cards out is more than the amount of gentle rocking of the machine needed to knock it out of alignment, I'm sure. Ahh! MCI won't do it, but a lot of other machines have the potentiometers mounted on daughter cards that can be separated from the main electronics cards. The little daughter cards are much cheaper than the electronics since they just have pots and occasionally a couple small parts on them. There are even a couple Studer machines that let you have two or three electronic alignments that you can swap between with a switch. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Justin Ulysses Morse wrote:
Okay, but I'm not going to buy a spare set of cards for the MCI just so I can switch tape brands without recalibrating. I don't think it would work anyway. The amount of force needed to pull those cards out is more than the amount of gentle rocking of the machine needed to knock it out of alignment, I'm sure. Ahh! MCI won't do it, but a lot of other machines have the potentiometers mounted on daughter cards that can be separated from the main electronics cards. The little daughter cards are much cheaper than the electronics since they just have pots and occasionally a couple small parts on them. There are even a couple Studer machines that let you have two or three electronic alignments that you can swap between with a switch. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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they have stopped production and the factory may be sold.
Greg "Analogeezer" wrote in message om... Just wondering...I was gonna convert from 499 but held off, I'd still like to but I'd like to see the company a bit more solvent. After Waldorf went down I got left holding the bag on a broken Q with no warranty (well the warranty is still in effect, the company isn't). Analogeezer |
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In article znr1085058246k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:
In article writes: I'm thinking it's bye-bye for their time in the tape business. Doesn't anybody here save postings from the Ampex mailing list? Within the last month, there was a message from the top guy at Emtec quoting a press release (which I can't find on any of the Emtec web sites) saying that essentially it was all over. I thought that was a message from someone at Quantegy, quoting someone at Emtec.... --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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In article znr1085058246k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:
In article writes: I'm thinking it's bye-bye for their time in the tape business. Doesn't anybody here save postings from the Ampex mailing list? Within the last month, there was a message from the top guy at Emtec quoting a press release (which I can't find on any of the Emtec web sites) saying that essentially it was all over. I thought that was a message from someone at Quantegy, quoting someone at Emtec.... --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Here's the scoop as passed on by Steve Smith of Quantegy: Quantegy received communication from Emtec on March 5, 2004 advising us of their stopping of A/V production. Below is a resent MMIS (Magnetic Media Information Services) article on the situation. A link to the MMIS web follows. March 5, 2004: EMTEC Magnetics GmbH, as most readers know, was declared insolvent on April 1, 2003. A special administrator was appointed by the German bankruptcy court in Ludwigshafen, and over the past year, this administrator has overseen the sale of various EMTEC assets. These assetsinvolve three separate manufacturing plants, several subsidiary compaies in Europe and elsewhere, and at least two separate legal entities, EMTEC Magnetics GmbH and EMTEC Consumer Products GmbH. The Imation Corporation, headquartered in Oakdale, Minnesota USA (a suburb of St. Paul), has purchased all rights to the data-products division of EMTEC Magnetics. Imation engineers are at this moment finalizing the removal of equipment relating to data-tape production from the Willst„tt manufacturing facility, and this process is expected to be completed by the end of the second quarter of 2004. This equipment will presumably be reinstalled in Imation facilities in Camarillo, California, and/or Weatherford, Oklahoma, which are the two main sites where the company currently produces its data-tape products. Imation is one of the world's largest producers of these products, and with EMTEC's demise, the only producer of any importance outside Japan. At least some of the assets of EMTEC Consumer Products GmbH, which was the sales and marketing arm of the defunct EMTEC organization, have been purchased by MPO France (originally known as Moulages Plastiques de l'Ouest, and not to be confused with the video tape producer MPO in Oosterhout, Netherlands). MPO France, headquartered in Averton, is Europe's largest independent producer of optical discs, including MiniDiscs, and indeed one of the larger optical disc producers in the industry, with plants in France, Spain, Ireland, Canada, USA, and Thailand, and representatives in many business centers in major cities around the world. MMIS understands that MPO's purchase includes rights to the use of the trade-name "EMTEC", and also includes the former EMTEC sales subsidiaries in France, Poland, Austria, and Italy. A new subsidiary has been formed, called MPO-Tec, which will be located in Mannheim, Germany, will initially employ about 27 people, and will sell EMTEC-branded tape and optical disc media to wholesalers and other consumer outlets throughout Europe and related markets. Former key executives of EMTEC Magnetics have joined together to form a completely independent new company for the sales and marketing of all forms of recording media. The new company, Deltona GmbH, is headed by Mr. Peter Felleisen, a senior engineer with more than 30 years experience in the magnetic media industry. Deltona is headquartered in the small town of Wachenheim, which is about 60 km south of Frankfurt am Main. Deltona has just announced that it has signed an agency agreement with Auriga-Aurex S.A. de C.V., located in Mexico City, Mexico, and one of the world's largest remaining producers of high-quality audio cassette tape. Deltona thus will be able to supply audio pancake tape for cassette-loading and duplication applications to all former EMTEC OEM customers, as well as to many new buyers. A consignment stock of tape will be kept in Germany for immediate shipment to customers throughout Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, and elsewhere. Deltona will represent Auriga-Aurex exclusively in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Japan, and Asia. Interested readers should contact Mr. Felleisen directly by e-mail ( ) or fax (+49-6206-912841). The fate of EMTEC Magnetics' Munich manufacturing facility, which produces audio and video cassette tape, professional audio tape for studio and broadcast applications, and several specialty products, remains unsettled at this moment (March 2004). MMIS understands that there are still unnamed groups interested in acquiring this facility. Time however is running out, and if no such purchaser is found in the immediate future, this facility, which was once the main Agfa tape production center for Europe, and one of the most advanced tape-production plants in the industry in the 1990s, will be shut down completely, its remaining employees discharged, and its equipment liquidated on a piece-by-piece basis. http://www.mmislueck.com/WhatsNews.htm -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over, lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo |
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Here's the scoop as passed on by Steve Smith of Quantegy: Quantegy received communication from Emtec on March 5, 2004 advising us of their stopping of A/V production. Below is a resent MMIS (Magnetic Media Information Services) article on the situation. A link to the MMIS web follows. March 5, 2004: EMTEC Magnetics GmbH, as most readers know, was declared insolvent on April 1, 2003. A special administrator was appointed by the German bankruptcy court in Ludwigshafen, and over the past year, this administrator has overseen the sale of various EMTEC assets. These assetsinvolve three separate manufacturing plants, several subsidiary compaies in Europe and elsewhere, and at least two separate legal entities, EMTEC Magnetics GmbH and EMTEC Consumer Products GmbH. The Imation Corporation, headquartered in Oakdale, Minnesota USA (a suburb of St. Paul), has purchased all rights to the data-products division of EMTEC Magnetics. Imation engineers are at this moment finalizing the removal of equipment relating to data-tape production from the Willst„tt manufacturing facility, and this process is expected to be completed by the end of the second quarter of 2004. This equipment will presumably be reinstalled in Imation facilities in Camarillo, California, and/or Weatherford, Oklahoma, which are the two main sites where the company currently produces its data-tape products. Imation is one of the world's largest producers of these products, and with EMTEC's demise, the only producer of any importance outside Japan. At least some of the assets of EMTEC Consumer Products GmbH, which was the sales and marketing arm of the defunct EMTEC organization, have been purchased by MPO France (originally known as Moulages Plastiques de l'Ouest, and not to be confused with the video tape producer MPO in Oosterhout, Netherlands). MPO France, headquartered in Averton, is Europe's largest independent producer of optical discs, including MiniDiscs, and indeed one of the larger optical disc producers in the industry, with plants in France, Spain, Ireland, Canada, USA, and Thailand, and representatives in many business centers in major cities around the world. MMIS understands that MPO's purchase includes rights to the use of the trade-name "EMTEC", and also includes the former EMTEC sales subsidiaries in France, Poland, Austria, and Italy. A new subsidiary has been formed, called MPO-Tec, which will be located in Mannheim, Germany, will initially employ about 27 people, and will sell EMTEC-branded tape and optical disc media to wholesalers and other consumer outlets throughout Europe and related markets. Former key executives of EMTEC Magnetics have joined together to form a completely independent new company for the sales and marketing of all forms of recording media. The new company, Deltona GmbH, is headed by Mr. Peter Felleisen, a senior engineer with more than 30 years experience in the magnetic media industry. Deltona is headquartered in the small town of Wachenheim, which is about 60 km south of Frankfurt am Main. Deltona has just announced that it has signed an agency agreement with Auriga-Aurex S.A. de C.V., located in Mexico City, Mexico, and one of the world's largest remaining producers of high-quality audio cassette tape. Deltona thus will be able to supply audio pancake tape for cassette-loading and duplication applications to all former EMTEC OEM customers, as well as to many new buyers. A consignment stock of tape will be kept in Germany for immediate shipment to customers throughout Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, and elsewhere. Deltona will represent Auriga-Aurex exclusively in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Japan, and Asia. Interested readers should contact Mr. Felleisen directly by e-mail ( ) or fax (+49-6206-912841). The fate of EMTEC Magnetics' Munich manufacturing facility, which produces audio and video cassette tape, professional audio tape for studio and broadcast applications, and several specialty products, remains unsettled at this moment (March 2004). MMIS understands that there are still unnamed groups interested in acquiring this facility. Time however is running out, and if no such purchaser is found in the immediate future, this facility, which was once the main Agfa tape production center for Europe, and one of the most advanced tape-production plants in the industry in the 1990s, will be shut down completely, its remaining employees discharged, and its equipment liquidated on a piece-by-piece basis. http://www.mmislueck.com/WhatsNews.htm -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over, lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo |
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"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
news:znr1085095010k@trad... The fate of EMTEC Magnetics' Munich manufacturing facility, which produces audio and video cassette tape, professional audio tape for studio and broadcast applications, and several specialty products, remains unsettled at this moment (March 2004). MMIS understands that there are still unnamed groups interested in acquiring this facility. Time however is running out, and if no such purchaser is found in the immediate future, this facility, which was once the main Agfa tape production center for Europe, and one of the most advanced tape-production plants in the industry in the 1990s, will be shut down completely, its remaining employees discharged, and its equipment liquidated on a piece-by-piece basis. ****. Peace, Paul |
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"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
news:znr1085095010k@trad... The fate of EMTEC Magnetics' Munich manufacturing facility, which produces audio and video cassette tape, professional audio tape for studio and broadcast applications, and several specialty products, remains unsettled at this moment (March 2004). MMIS understands that there are still unnamed groups interested in acquiring this facility. Time however is running out, and if no such purchaser is found in the immediate future, this facility, which was once the main Agfa tape production center for Europe, and one of the most advanced tape-production plants in the industry in the 1990s, will be shut down completely, its remaining employees discharged, and its equipment liquidated on a piece-by-piece basis. ****. Peace, Paul |
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Steve Smith passed on the following:
Time however is running out, and if no such purchaser is found in the immediate future, this facility, which was once the main Agfa tape production center for Europe, and one of the most advanced tape-production plants in the industry in the 1990s, will be shut down completely, its remaining employees discharged, and its equipment liquidated on a piece-by-piece basis. Scott, do you have some room in your garage for some of this stuff? Think of how nicely you could slit the tape for your nagra! (: -- Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | "someday the industry will have throbbing frontal lobes and will be able to write provably correct software. also, I want a pony." -- Zach Brown |
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Steve Smith passed on the following:
Time however is running out, and if no such purchaser is found in the immediate future, this facility, which was once the main Agfa tape production center for Europe, and one of the most advanced tape-production plants in the industry in the 1990s, will be shut down completely, its remaining employees discharged, and its equipment liquidated on a piece-by-piece basis. Scott, do you have some room in your garage for some of this stuff? Think of how nicely you could slit the tape for your nagra! (: -- Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | "someday the industry will have throbbing frontal lobes and will be able to write provably correct software. also, I want a pony." -- Zach Brown |
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Steve SMith told Mike Rivers:
The fate of EMTEC Magnetics' Munich manufacturing facility, which produces audio and video cassette tape, professional audio tape for studio and broadcast applications, and several specialty products, remains unsettled at this moment (March 2004). MMIS understands that there are still unnamed groups interested in acquiring this facility. Time however is running out, and if no such purchaser is found in the immediate future, this facility, which was once the main Agfa tape production center for Europe, and one of the most advanced tape-production plants in the industry in the 1990s, will be shut down completely, its remaining employees discharged, and its equipment liquidated on a piece-by-piece basis. Agfa was making some beautiful tape in the late '80s, presumably from this facility. The slitting was so much better than their competition it wasn't even funny. Sad... |
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Steve SMith told Mike Rivers:
The fate of EMTEC Magnetics' Munich manufacturing facility, which produces audio and video cassette tape, professional audio tape for studio and broadcast applications, and several specialty products, remains unsettled at this moment (March 2004). MMIS understands that there are still unnamed groups interested in acquiring this facility. Time however is running out, and if no such purchaser is found in the immediate future, this facility, which was once the main Agfa tape production center for Europe, and one of the most advanced tape-production plants in the industry in the 1990s, will be shut down completely, its remaining employees discharged, and its equipment liquidated on a piece-by-piece basis. Agfa was making some beautiful tape in the late '80s, presumably from this facility. The slitting was so much better than their competition it wasn't even funny. Sad... |
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In article znr1085139406k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:
In article writes: Agfa was making some beautiful tape in the late '80s, presumably from this facility. The slitting was so much better than their competition it wasn't even funny. They did have some coating problems though. I used 468 on my 2" machine for a while and I had to take the vacuum cleaner to the top plate after every session to keep it from looking like it was covered with soot. It also had a tendency to get gummy (even when fresh) when the humidity got a bit high. I built a duct from cardboard and duct tape to direct warm are from the exhaust fan on the rear of the machine across the top plate and blowing on the tape just before it hit the fixed guide on the supply side tension arm. That did the trick, kind of like "baking in place lite." Agfa had some major shedding problems, but they got them under control when BASF took their line over. I _think_ that the current facility was built by BASF in the early 1990s to consolidate operations from the old BASF and Agfa plants, and it is certainly the newest and most advanced of the tape production facilities. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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In article znr1085139406k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:
In article writes: Agfa was making some beautiful tape in the late '80s, presumably from this facility. The slitting was so much better than their competition it wasn't even funny. They did have some coating problems though. I used 468 on my 2" machine for a while and I had to take the vacuum cleaner to the top plate after every session to keep it from looking like it was covered with soot. It also had a tendency to get gummy (even when fresh) when the humidity got a bit high. I built a duct from cardboard and duct tape to direct warm are from the exhaust fan on the rear of the machine across the top plate and blowing on the tape just before it hit the fixed guide on the supply side tension arm. That did the trick, kind of like "baking in place lite." Agfa had some major shedding problems, but they got them under control when BASF took their line over. I _think_ that the current facility was built by BASF in the early 1990s to consolidate operations from the old BASF and Agfa plants, and it is certainly the newest and most advanced of the tape production facilities. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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In article znr1085139144k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:
In article writes: and one of the most advanced tape-production plants in the industry in the 1990s, will be shut down completely, its remaining employees discharged, and its equipment liquidated on a piece-by-piece basis. Scott, do you have some room in your garage for some of this stuff? Think of how nicely you could slit the tape for your nagra! Don't tempt him. He's just getting around to having his wedding reception. g I looked around at doing magnetic coating on 16mm film a few years ago when Technicolor Magnecraft shut down their coating line. Back then, they were getting the slurry manufactured on-contract to them by the Fidelipac plant in Virginia (the former Audio Devices/ Capitol Audiotape plant) and the Fidelipac guys offered to sell it to me as well. The basic manufacturing process has three parts: making the slurry, coating the film, and slitting it into tape. Making the slurry is pretty much the difficult part and it seems to be impossible to make the same tape formulation in two facilities. There is an awful lot of ball milling and grinding to get the particle sizes correct and a lot of analytical process control involved. Once you have the slurry, there are a lot of third-world facilities that make videotape that are happy to coat and slit on contract. The former principals of Zonal were talking with a Mexican videotape plant about manufacturing tape on contract for a while and I am curious whatever happened to that. Coating, slitting, and spooling are critical processes, but the equipment to do this stuff is pretty much the same at all factories and it's available out there. Hey, anyone in India know if JAI is still manufacturing audio tapes? And if they are any good? --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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In article znr1085139144k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:
In article writes: and one of the most advanced tape-production plants in the industry in the 1990s, will be shut down completely, its remaining employees discharged, and its equipment liquidated on a piece-by-piece basis. Scott, do you have some room in your garage for some of this stuff? Think of how nicely you could slit the tape for your nagra! Don't tempt him. He's just getting around to having his wedding reception. g I looked around at doing magnetic coating on 16mm film a few years ago when Technicolor Magnecraft shut down their coating line. Back then, they were getting the slurry manufactured on-contract to them by the Fidelipac plant in Virginia (the former Audio Devices/ Capitol Audiotape plant) and the Fidelipac guys offered to sell it to me as well. The basic manufacturing process has three parts: making the slurry, coating the film, and slitting it into tape. Making the slurry is pretty much the difficult part and it seems to be impossible to make the same tape formulation in two facilities. There is an awful lot of ball milling and grinding to get the particle sizes correct and a lot of analytical process control involved. Once you have the slurry, there are a lot of third-world facilities that make videotape that are happy to coat and slit on contract. The former principals of Zonal were talking with a Mexican videotape plant about manufacturing tape on contract for a while and I am curious whatever happened to that. Coating, slitting, and spooling are critical processes, but the equipment to do this stuff is pretty much the same at all factories and it's available out there. Hey, anyone in India know if JAI is still manufacturing audio tapes? And if they are any good? --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Who is left making pro audio Tape?
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Who is left making pro audio Tape?
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EggHd wrote:
Who is left making pro audio Tape? Quantegy. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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