HI

I was just after some help, with what you know about?
or if any one is interested in buying:

Studer B67-0.25"
* Speeds range from 3.75 / 7.5 to 15 ips
* The record and playback heads are only a few working weeks old.
* full service manual can be downloaded as a pdf file. (but i can borrow one
to photocopy pages from it.)
* i have yet to connect it to my amp to test output and input's but I have
no reason to believe that have stopped work from hen it was removed from BBC
desk.

*the only fault that I know of is the counter display PCB is damaged, but I
might be able to get hold of a replacement in a week or 2.

* the speed selecting works fine but a little slow at getting up to speed,
just need's a bit of TLC.

FS
mail:-

FS wrote:

HI

I was just after some help, with what you know about?
or if any one is interested in buying:

Studer B67-0.25"
* Speeds range from 3.75 / 7.5 to 15 ips
* The record and playback heads are only a few working weeks old.
* full service manual can be downloaded as a pdf file. (but i can borrow
one to photocopy pages from it.)

Can you provide a link to this please?

* i have yet to connect it to my amp to test output and input's but I have
no reason to believe that have stopped work from hen it was removed from
BBC desk.

*the only fault that I know of is the counter display PCB is damaged, but
I might be able to get hold of a replacement in a week or 2.

* the speed selecting works fine but a little slow at getting up to speed,
just need's a bit of TLC.


How much do you want for it and where are you located?

Cheers

Ian

* full service manual can be down-loaded as a pdf file. (but i can
borrow
one to photocopy pages from it.)

Can you provide a link to this please?

(will have to find out location of link as i was only told by another BBC
Enginner it was out as a pdf file, i have sent them an email to ask location
will let you know what they say.

How much do you want for it and where are you located?

about £600 but open to offers.
Cumbria, UK

Cheers

Ian

Is it calibrated??

I'm sorry i dont know the answer to this. but will cheack with members of
staff to see if they know.

If so.. to what tape?

the tape that were used with it are

Zonal 675
1200FT/365M
17 72 - 791

Professional Magnetic Tape

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:29:17 GMT, "FS" wrote:



Is it calibrated??

I'm sorry i dont know the answer to this. but will cheack with members of
staff to see if they know.

If the heads are only 2 weeks old and the deck was working when pulled form the BBC
installation it was a part of, there is no reason to believe that it is not
calibrated (for use with the tape mentioned below).

If so.. to what tape?

the tape that were used with it are

Zonal 675
1200FT/365M
17 72 - 791

Professional Magnetic Tape


As far as I know BBC used Zonal tape as standard, all their recording gear was setup
for it.

Mikkel

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:45:31 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Mikkel Breiler wrote:
As far as I know BBC used Zonal tape as standard, all their recording
gear was setup for it.

It's a long time since I worked for the BBC, but they then used many
different types and quality of 1/4" tape for different applications.
After all, there's no point in using the very best quality (and cost) for
World Service where it was transmitted on SW as opposed to R3 on FM.

Even in TV, we used cheap tape for general use, but better stuff in the TV
music recording studio.

And Zonal 101 was at the bottom end of the tape quality - to say the
least. ;-) But gave reasonable results at high speeds - 15 ips was used as
it made editing easier.

I bought a box of 25 Zonal 675 tapes last year from a gentleman in England, he said
it was ex-bbc as they were getting out of analog production and editing. I had no
idea they used more than one type of tape. But it makes sense, now that you mention
it.
Our danish radio is doing the same. About 8 years ago they moved into digital
production, and two years ago they went from analog editing to digital editing, which
they were getting rid of the Studer equipment and inventory just like the beeb.
My source from the danish radio gave me some AGFA PEM 36x and PEM 46x tapes and also
BASF LGR 30 tapes, some as thin as 1600 meters on 10.5'' reels. And from an old
endavour at the danish radio I got hold of some 7'' reels with AGFA PER 528 and 525
as well as different BASF LGR 30 tapes. All of them good without sticky tape
syndrome.

Location recording used 'better' tapes at a higher cost that could give
good results at lower speeds on portable machines where large reels
weren't practicable.

This also gave the interviewer the luxury of focusing on the material more than the
technical "Do I have enough tape for one more question?" all the technical reloading
and other techncial aspects could often break the mood between the interviewed and
the journalist.

The thin tapes I got hold of were loggin tapes at 1 7/8 ips with the left channel a
live feed off the tv (we had only one national channel only back in the day) the
other right channel was Ms. Clock fro mour telephone company. After some years the
taps would be reused and the dates overwritten. I estimate from the dates that my
tapes from 1976-ish had about 3-5 uses, no more. They still perform well.
And 1600 meters gives a very healthy 1hr 9 minutes at 15ips on my ex-danish radio
Studer A80-R. Or twice that when I record The Essential mix off cable radio - which
unfortunately is merely in mpeg quality once it gets over here.

Mikkel

The thin tapes I got hold of were loggin tapes at 1 7/8 ips with the left
channel a
live feed off the tv (we had only one national channel only back in the day) the
other right channel was Ms. Clock fro mour telephone company. After some years
the
taps would be reused and the dates overwritten. I estimate from the dates that
my
tapes from 1976-ish had about 3-5 uses, no more. They still perform well.
And 1600 meters gives a very healthy 1hr 9 minutes at 15ips on my ex-danish
radio
Studer A80-R.


Now thats a very nice piece of furniture

Having said that I've been meaning to re-box my Studer B67 for sometime
now)))

when I get a supply of roundtuits..


Or twice that when I record The Essential mix off cable radio -
which
unfortunately is merely in mpeg quality once it gets over here.

What a waste of a good tape machine..

Mikkel

--
Tony Sayer