Technoculture #10 Richard Hess (Audio tape preservation)
Channel: Federica Bressan
Date: 2019-04-16

Richard Hess is a world expert in audio tapes preservation and restoration based in Ontario, Canada. During this conversation, Richard tells us about his early entry into electronics and provides an overview of the changes he's experienced in 55 years of audio involvement. He speaks to his experiences with the ABC Television Network, WABC-TV, his move to McCurdy Radio Industries in Toronto, and then to Glendale California where he spent 21 years at National TeleConsultants. We also discussed how he got into audio tape restoration and some of the challenges in storing and recovering tape. He also discusses his adventures in Web design for his informative website at www.richardhess.com/notes/, a gold reference for every practitioner in this field. He finally talks about his current project of developing, with John Dyson, a software decoder that is Dolby A compatible, and about archival storage and knowledge/information transfer as well as many details of specific tape issues.

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