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  @tonib92613 минут бұрын

  Back in the 80s and 99s I used to work in merchant banking in the city of London, all trader phone (and other voice circuits) were continuously recorded during the working day, so there were many entire racks filled with this sort of recorder, and although I never came across these particular units, devices using vhs tape were common. It was someone’s job to change the tapes daily on these dozens of recorders. As noted elsewhere in the comments, that’s an RJ21 on the back, up to 25 x balanced 600 ohm line level feeds per connector, using a 25 twisted pair cable. Of course these machines are all ancient history with hard disk recording rapidly becoming the norm, the real advantage of which was not the end of swapping and storing a months worth of tapes, but same day playback, rather than having to wait for swapsies to recover the wanted tape.

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  @1lennetje3 күн бұрын

  Interesting experiment! Regarding the S/PDIF input the following. The Copy Prohibit flag is always high when this input is used. A digital copy is only possible with a source that allows digital copying. The digital output of a consumer CD player always has that flag high. The digital output of the CD player can be modified. But it is also possible to modify the digital input of the 601, allowing unlimited digital copying. I once did that to one of my 601s and it worked fine. It is recommended to connect the video transmitter to the Copy output of the 601. Then the best result is obtained. When a tape without copy prohibition is played and the Copy key is pressed, a stable and error-corrected video signal is presented to the copy output.

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  @davesmith53358 күн бұрын

  is that an icom 703 on the left.

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  @timf-tinkering8 күн бұрын

  @@davesmith5335 It’s a 706 mk II. Nice rig, but the mic level seems low. Even on max gain I have to speak quite loudly.

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  @davesmith53357 күн бұрын

  @@timf-tinkering That's interesting. The operators who i've talked to using those radios have always had loud punchy audio. Have you tried using a diiferent Microphone.

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  @timf-tinkering7 күн бұрын

  @@davesmith5335 actually I suspect the microphone I have is not the correct one for the radio, although it obviously has the right RJ45 plug on it and it is an icom mic.

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  @AvroVulcanXH6079 күн бұрын

  The idea of recording notes onto the tracks and cutting between them is pretty much exactly how 10cc did their 'wall of sound' in "I'm Not In Love' 😁

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  @FLH3official10 күн бұрын

  25:50, loan it to Hainbach or Look Mum No Computer, I'm sur they could do something creativ with that! 😁

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  @njm1971nyc10 күн бұрын

  90 whole days warranty on the video heads! You're spoiling us, Technicolor!! Far too generous! 😂. Completely unrelated, but my first job was with Technicolor - "Technicolor Videocassette" - a huge VHS tape duplication plant in the UK. Probably most of the pre-recorded tapes sold/rented in the UK were produced at that plant. No Technicolor equipment, of course, aside from a broken "Showcase" that sat on a shelf of junk. Mostly JVC BR-7000 and some Panasonic AG-6810 duplicators, for the geeks who care about such things 😊

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  @ingenfestbrems13 күн бұрын

  Hello 🙂🇳🇴,, Basf that make this bbc tape?

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  @timf-tinkering12 күн бұрын

  @@ingenfestbrems BBC brand tapes were made by Strand Europe Limited. The company is still operating, and now manufactures Kodak brand batteries.

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  @paulstubbs767813 күн бұрын

  I was kind of hoping you'd stretch the link a lot further. What would be interesting now that you've put the vid onto KZread, can we take the YT video and feed it back into the F1 and decode the audio, as in finally HiFi sound via KZread.

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  @paulstubbs767813 күн бұрын

  Nice setup, I have a few of these 2.4GHz video senders, the biggest problem is that radio band has mostly been taken over by WiFi making them kind of useless. I setup one to transmit the output of a computer, and received it by a handheld receiver/LCD monitor, boy does the picture break up as I move away from the transmitter. I shut down my WiFi, but it was not much better as everyone around me, neighbours etc, all have WiFi.

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  @QUADBOYification14 күн бұрын

  It is almost HIFI, needs more tape speed (20mm/s) making it a 5-track stereo tapedeck.

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  @wasiuuu116 күн бұрын

  most likely pinch roller , probably hard as brick - that's you problem with tape speed 🙂 thanks on another video 🙂

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  @njm1971nyc17 күн бұрын

  The pinch roller looks a little shiny, perhaps. More likely to be the cause of w&f than the direct-drive capstan.

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  @cernyjana649318 күн бұрын

  absolutely useless knowledge, but I love it!

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  @MillAppartments-kb5vd18 күн бұрын

  The timecode might be encoded across tracks to flag tampering .

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  @voltare2amstereo18 күн бұрын

  Type of thing would be ideal for recording multiple radio stations at once for monitoring/analytics

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  @ssslimey18 күн бұрын

  This is a pretty cool find.

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  @tortysoft18 күн бұрын

  How does this system cope with the head switch changeover eack 25th second?

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  @tortysoft18 күн бұрын

  I'll bet the flutter and the spooling problem is due to the takeup real mechanism, too tight ...

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  @timf-tinkering18 күн бұрын

  @@tortysoft This machine records linear tracks using static heads.

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  @tortysoft18 күн бұрын

  @@timf-tinkering Thanks. What remarkable reproduction from such a slow head to tape speed. 15/16th ips?

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  @timf-tinkering18 күн бұрын

  4.18mm/s, roughly 1/6 ips. It's designed to record for 24 hours continuously on a T-180 tape.

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  @tortysoft18 күн бұрын

  @@timf-tinkering That is incredibly slow. I'm amazed anything could be reproduced at that speed. I got a VHS to record the entire medium wave band, with head switch clicks, and Hi Fi sound, multiplexed radio , demultiplexed on replay. I got six hours out of that, but with the clicks. I told Sony how to do it, six months later the HiFi VHS came out...

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  @Capturing-Memories18 күн бұрын

  What did you accomplish by spraying the back side of the flywheels? The shaft bushings are underneath on the opposite side.

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  @timf-tinkering18 күн бұрын

  @@Capturing-Memories Absolutely nothing. The bearings felt smooth and free so I didn’t see any point in trying to do anything to them, and the Hall effect position sensors were the only other thing I could see to clean. I didn’t expect that to have any effect, and it apparently didn’t.

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  @Capturing-Memories18 күн бұрын

  @@timf-tinkering My point was, spraying the top of the flywheel does nothing, the shaft is affixed to the flywheel.

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  @davewalker712618 күн бұрын

  I can see the pinch wheel would be easy to remove and clean

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  @wasiuuu119 күн бұрын

  Its a shame Teac didn't develop further in this unit in to like 10 track stereo recorder that could be used as a home studio recording system or even 20 track like you mentioned. instead we had only four or eight track availability. To use at the time video tape was just excellent idea witch was available globally everywhere all sizes and types of it including High end tapes like mastering types. Tape Speed of the unit could be much higher with different speed variety you could choose from for different quality or tape types. Anyway i just fought to make a point here cos this TEAC seems very interesting little unit that got stuck only to record low quality voice . Thank you for showing and explaining, must say never seen it before 🙂

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  @timf-tinkering19 күн бұрын

  Yes, I agree, they could have developed this idea into a low-cost multi-track recorder for home studios.

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  @gdavisloopfta38019 күн бұрын

  Hi Tim, very interested device! I notice it requires the 3-hour "T-180" SVHS tape to achieve the full 24-hour recording. I wanted to contact you about the Sony RTE-3000 realtime Mpeg-1 encoder, but I don't see any contact information on your channel page.

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  @DjNikGnashers21 күн бұрын

  The Alesis ADAT in early 1992, recorded 8 tracks of digital audio onto a VHS tape/cassette. This is an interesting machine, never seen one before so many thanks for the fascinating video.

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  @vlzmusik22 күн бұрын

  why 10/20 tracks? Wouldn't mono or perhaps 2 tracks be sufficient?

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  @musicaltechnique162022 күн бұрын

  It is useful for recording multiple (phone) conversations simultaneously. Or for radio broadcasters recording their Logs of multiple programs on just one cassette.

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  @TheResistorNetwork22 күн бұрын

  Nice bit of kit and presentation of the capabilities. Never heard of these before!

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  @plattcriceta171923 күн бұрын

  so why not get an SVHS tape to begin with?

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  @nathanwoodruff942224 күн бұрын

  The CR-500 uses a no longer manufactured Zip Disk 750MB Cartridge.

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  @WX4GPS26 күн бұрын

  I was hoping you would test channel 5 with your audio to see if it was low or came out normal

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  @WX4GPS26 күн бұрын

  I think those were RAM disk in a cartridge or caddy

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  @theprogrammerrolandmc303927 күн бұрын

  sounds exactly when you get put on hold on the phone probably the worst sound that ever existed in audio

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  @YouTube4Rudy27 күн бұрын

  Great video! I would still do an "Item Not As Describe" on eBay to force the seller to ship the keys and manual. Still amazed on how slow that tape ran.

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  @timf-tinkering27 күн бұрын

  Thank you! I did raise a “not as described” case with eBay, but the only option it offered was to return the item for a full refund, and it sent me a return shipping label. Obviously that’s not what I wanted because I still wanted the item, but it was the only possible resolution offered by eBay, so I just had to let it lie.

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  @James_Bowie16 күн бұрын

  If you paid via PayPal you could have requested a refund due to non-communication. That will usually light up recalcitrant sellers.

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  @SteveHartmanVideos27 күн бұрын

  I’m surprised how well the correction worked. It still resembles the source w some cracks and not a total drop out.

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  @SteveHartmanVideos27 күн бұрын

  If you used SVHS tape, would it be cleaner? Maybe first copy would work better. At least it might last longer.

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  @DiskettePark27 күн бұрын

  Looks like it would be a great tool to use on vaporwave recordings.

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  @massapower27 күн бұрын

  WOW!!😲

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  @tarstarkusz27 күн бұрын

  Edison wax cylinders sound better. This is terrible.

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  @dhpbear227 күн бұрын

  I'd love to speed the tape up to 7.5 ips!

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  @dhpbear227 күн бұрын

  11:40 - 50-pin was quite prevalent in The States back then

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  @DAVIDGREGORYKERR28 күн бұрын

  What about a PASC Encoder/Decoder module to let you record in stereo at 20Hz - 22050Khz

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  @user-mh5ni2nt7c28 күн бұрын

  MCMLXXXVIII = 1988?

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  @timf-tinkering25 күн бұрын

  The tape label and the sleeve give a copyright date of 1996, but this comment prompted me to look at the tape a bit more closely. I'm now sure this is actually an American re-release of the original UK release, and they have just converted the UK PAL version to NTSC, which goes some way to explaining the awful quality. The original release date of 1988 also explains the 1980s home computer graphics. How this American tape made its way to the UK to be found among a batch of UK PAL tapes I don't know.

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  @cmosllo28 күн бұрын

  Thank you for sharing such a detailed repair video. In fact, the mechanics and circuits are more optimized and simpler than the old VHS recorders. The rewind speed is really fast. I believe the head is also wear-resistant. In fact, the 10v electrolytic capacitor replaced is a 5v filter capacitor in the stand by circuit. Because the machine is not disconnected from the power plug and the power supply is in standby state for a long time, it is a capacitor that is easy to fail.

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  @satos128 күн бұрын

  Back in the day when things were built to last.

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  @cmosllo28 күн бұрын

  This device was first seen. Although it used VHS tapes, the playback and recording methods were cassette tapes. Because it only recorded 3Khz human voice audio, the sound quality requirements were not high. So he designed to reduce the tape speed to achieve the goal of using a VHS tape to record 10 channels of audio at the same time for a long time (10 heads working at the same time).

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  @neilrobinson980628 күн бұрын

  The last recordings of a total loooser

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  @sc0or28 күн бұрын

  I would try to use some Ampex 102 1/2" heads, thicker capstan rod, etc to have at least 3 3/4 ips. This is very sad that tons of VHS will be recycled at a time they could play some analogue music. Or this will be interesting to speed it x10 up to 4.96cm/s, because these heads seem to be very promising in terms of a gap width. If they are able to record 3kHz at 0.5cm/s than this must be 30kHz at 5 cm/s

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  @eskwadrat29 күн бұрын

  The CR500 uses 640 MB rewriteable optical diskettes that look similar to 3.5in floppy but it isn't.

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  @davegregg11829 күн бұрын

  Very interesting! Thanks for that

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  @nuNWO29 күн бұрын

  Can't remember the make but all our dealing room phones where recorded to a VHS system.... until one day when it was ripped out and we had a system you could access from any phone and listen to your calls - even play them on the second handset on loud speaker using the goose mic to the person you were in dispute with...

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  @Emotator29 күн бұрын

  Good find there. Very interresting item indeed👍

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  @johndyson410929 күн бұрын

  TEAC is kool stuff but this unit is basically a BOAT ANCHOR! Using this outdated audio equipment and tube amps. is like going to an ART show with SUNGLASSES on..

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  @BilisNegra29 күн бұрын

  Even if the quality is just enough for spoken word to be understood, 480 hours/20 days (for the higher model) of speech on one tape is certainly massive!