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John Howell (Hibou)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At one time there was a capstan sleeve available for a TR90 in the TV Theatre enabling it to run at about 30ips. It managed to record pulse & bar, albeit not locked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Jordan<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

 A bit like someone tried to record 405 vision from AP on a BTR2 (? the big green thing) and it just about worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pat Heigham<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I have a faint memory of the BTR2 being capable of 30 ips. There were two in the Riverside music studio before the Studers were installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also remember going to the Radio\/Hi-Fi show at the Russell Hotel, where I was enthralled at the quality of an Ampex \u00bc\u201d deck running at 30 ips with huge Tannoy Autograph speakers delivering wonderful sounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Plowman<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pretty certain 30 ips was fairly standard in the music recording industry in the early days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pat Heigham<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Having been appointed a Gram Op at a time when there was a severe shortage of edit facilities, necessitating trips to BH or even Bush, I bought a Revox 736 (G36) which could handle 10 \u00bd\u201d NAB spools. But the off the shelf model ran at 7 \u00bd or 3 \u00be ips. Upon asking, the factory supplied me a version to operate at 15 or 7 \u00bd, except that the printed escutcheon plate still said the old speeds!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I took tapes home to edit there \u2013 maybe a bit naughty, but we were trusted to cart master tapes in our cars from various venues around London, and so the job got done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I could book a Television Centre sound gallery for an edit, I was often still there at midnight, when the duty fireman made his rounds. The fact that I was there on my own was most likely against safety regs \u2013 I think that there was supposed to be at least two  staff in technical areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being a Grams Op on TOTP or \u201cJuke Box Jury\u201d meant that we always had the very latest music for party tapes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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