Talk:Ampex

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Lee M 04:24, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)

message: Please see http://www.tvhandbook.com/History/History_recording.htm for a more precise origin of the recording of Bing Crosby shows
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In a recent artice in Radio Times (1 - 7 November 2003 issue, page 21), BBC archivist Sean Street claims that Ampex's professional audio tape as produced in the 1980s used flawed emulsion that flakes off over time, and that the only way to recover the recording is to bake the tape so that it can be played once and copied before disintegrating! Lee M 04:31, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: In "The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody", a documentary about Queen's early days on BBC3, they mentioned that the original master for Bohemian Rhapsody was so fragile that "it had to be baked in an oven before it can be played". Boffy b 10:21, 2004 Dec 5 (UTC)
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I worked at Ampex from August 1981 to December 1985 and during my tenure there I had the opportunity to listen to one of Mallinson's talks on the history of magnetic recording.  I think this story should be preserved for posterity.  A Google search on J. Mallinson and Ampex will generate links to several IEEE journal articles authored in the 1970s and 1980s.  I think the story will be lost if annotated here, so at some point I will attempt an edit of the main Ampex article [E. V. Pons-Worley, University of California evpons@ucsc.edu].
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Someone should mention that AMPEX tape was professional audio industry standard, and maybe mention Quantegy.
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Might I suggest that the spelling of Ampex's founder's name be checked. There are variant spellings of the name on the same page.
JoaoRicardo 03:14, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The Ampex Records article is pretty thin and it doesn't look like there is much to add to it. I suggest merging it into this article. -- Austin Murphy 14:53, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Ampex Records 

message: I'm surprised that through this entire article, there hasn't been one mention of the Ampex 350 recorder, which is arguable the most frequently used audio recorder of the late 50s and 1960s and the most famous of Ampex's audio inventions.  Many important recordings were produced with it.  The classic Blue Note catalog was recorded on Rudy van Gelder's 350.  Some people still swear by them to this day.
Qphilo 01:30, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I was wondering where 472 (cassette) and 456 (r2r mastering tape) were. Wow. 456 was THE word in mastering for folks that could handle 370 nWb/m. Then there was 499 for the really tough cookies. Binksternet (talk) 01:55, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The fabled Ampex 350 and 440 

message: By 1958, Tom Dowd of Atlantic Records had become the owner of the third Ampex 8 track
Blogs at Tony Gibs 6 - Recording pioneers
Atlantic bought it in 1958Classic Tracks: Ray Charles' "What'd I Say"
"Dowd began to make the first hit records with it, recording the likes of Ray Charles, The Coasters, Ben E. King, John Coltrane and Charles Mingus."End of the Line for a 'Free Bird'
Bobby Darin's "Splish Slash" was one of the first hits recorded on an 8-trackThe Splish Splash Session
Ray Charles "Yes Indeed!" album was recorded on 8-track. Released October, 1958
Ray Charles Albums – 1950s
"Ray and the gang got to New York for a session in late February, only a month after Tom Dowd had bought an Ampex eight-track recorder for the 23456 studio."Ray Charles: man and music
 By Michael Lydon, Routledge, 2004
Tom Dowd argued that 8-track recordings could be re-mixed down to stereo at a later dateJive Talkin' with Arif MARDIN
Robert.Harker (talk) 05:37, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  8 track notes 

message: Was this an Ampex award?
Robert.Harker (talk) 04:50, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  AMPEX GOLDEN REEL 

message: Ampex ceased operations in October, 2014. Delta Information Systems bought what was left, the military/aviation speciality digital recorder business. Article updated to "was". A sad end to a long tradition. John Nagle (talk) 19:05, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gone 

message: I saw the following sentence in the main article and it's confusing to me:
"Ampex Data Systems, remains a GOING concern as part of the Delta Information Systems group,[21] manufacturing airborne recording systems for the aerospace and defense industries, and which previously also produced digital archiving systems for both broadcast and aerospace/defense applications"
The capitalized word above:  Is it supposed to be "growing" or "ongoing" or what?
Also,  the whole sentence feels like a run-on sentence.  Could it be broken up or re-worded? Rricci428 (talk) 05:26, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the zombie company problem, where the company is dead, but the brand, zombie-like, lives on. The same problem shows up at Blockbuster LLC, Zenith Electronics, and Westinghouse Electric (1886).  When the company ceases to operate but the brand name has a new owner, Wikipedia usually refers to the old company as dead and "was" is used to refer to it.  Ampex had a side business making solid-state storage devices for aerospace applications, and Delta Information Systems picked that up in the bankruptcy, along with the Ampex name. The California Secretary of State's database shows AMPEX as "Surrendered" and "Merged Out", so calling it a going concern is a bit much. Changed the text to "A remnant of the company, Ampex Data Systems, remains as part of the Delta Information Systems group" John Nagle (talk) 19:13, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing sentence in main article 

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message: I have removed the following linkfarm:
* Alexander M. Poniatoff
* About Poniatoff and Ampex during his time
* About Poniatoff at the 20th Century American Leaders Database
* a more precise origin of the recording of Bing Crosby shows
* The History of Magnetic Recording
* Recording Technology History
* Der Bingle Technology
* Total Rewind – The Virtual Museum of Vintage VCRs
* "Both Sides Now" webpage on Ampex Records
* Ampex Virtual Museum and Mailing List
* AES Historical Committee: Ampex History Project
* An Ampex recording head, deconstructed.
This does not add too much to the article.  Please use as references where suitable.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:48, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  linkfarm 

message: I am going to remove this sentence:
: Another possible motivation wasn't so much that Crosby wanted the more relaxed atmosphere of taping vs live but that live network radio required performing two identical shows a night, one for the east coast and one for the west coast.[7]
The first part ("Another possible motivation wasn't so much that Crosby wanted the more relaxed atmosphere of taping vs live") is merely speculation and is not supported by any cited source.
The second part ("live network radio required performing two identical shows a night, one for the east coast and one for the west coast") is false: while this statement would have been true in the early years of radio in the 1920's, it certainly wasn't true at NBC in the the ca. 1944 time frame under discussion.  For many years the standard practice in this scenario was to broadcast live in one time zone while transmitting it over high-quality long-distance cables to affiliates that recorded it on transcription discs for delayed broadcast in their time zone.  The claim is also not supported by the cited source ("The Ever-Evolving Role of Airchecks", https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/roots-of-radio/airchecks-evolving-role); in fact, this article's only mention of live broadcasts is of "'transcriptions' meant to capture live shows for rebroadcast at other times and on other stations"; it offers no mention or support of performing multiple identical shows a night for different time zones.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ScribeMonk (talk • contribs) 16:50, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing Unsupported Claim