boyajian@akov68.DEC (03/07/84)
Three things: > Can one grab the stereo sound off one's Hi-Fi receiver and feed it to > a Beta Hi-Fi recorder while recording a simulcast? > -- > Fritz Benedict Most definitely. One thing that my father found that cannot be done, though: Since his earlier Betas were not stereo, when a simulcast of an opera on PBS was done, he made a reel-to-reel tape of the simulcast, as well as a videotape of the tv broadcast. When he got the Beta-HiFi, he tried to copy the video over through the video-in jacks and copy the simulcast over through the audio-in jacks at the same time. Well, it *works*, but the speeds on the various machines are variable enough so that even starting off in sync (and my father was *very* good at that), the two sources fairly quickly get noticably out of sync. > I recently gave in and purchased a Beta Hifi VCR (Sanyo 7200). It's a > nice deck, and the audio sounds better than dbx recordings on my Hitachi > 3 head cassette deck. I was wondering if anyone had tried using a dbx > unit along with the Beta Hifi audio? Given the already high dynamic > range of Beta Hifi I doubt if it would make much difference, but there > might be something that I've overlooked. > I haven't tried it yet (maybe this weekend...) but was wondering if anyone > had any thoughts on the subject. > Don Wegeng (dw) No, I haven't tried using a dbx unit with the Beta HiFi, mainly because I don't have a dbx unit. I'd be interested in hearing the results, though. Sometime I'd like to try hooking up the multiplex filter that came with my Beta HiFi. But you're right about the terrific sound that comes out of the BHF. By the way, as an addendum to a posting that I made about a month ago, in which I listed the the audio specs for the Beta HiFi, I finally found out that the signal-to-noise ratio is roughly 70 (the video s/n is ~45). > For audio recorder heads I use either isopropyl alcohol or a spray can > of Freon TF (extremely pure versions are available for head cleaning). [...] > This is a low-force spray can. I have used FreonTF for all sorts of > electrical and electronics cleaning and have been very happy with it. > bill cox I've been using the same thing for my Betas (the brand is Texwipe, and it's 65% Freon TF and 35% isopropanol), and I've gotten good results with it. This is the stuff we've been using here at DEC to clean tape drive heads. I've got a head- cleaning casette, too, though I have yet to use it. The advice I got was that it should be used only as a last resort. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard) UUCP: (decvax!decwrl!rhea!akov68!boyajian) ARPA: (decwrl!rhea!akov68!boyajian@Shasta)